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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
Illustration by ChatGPT 4o AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? Hinton’s view on co-evolution Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens gradient descent to an evolutionary engine running on fast-forward: whereas natural selection gropes across generations…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VIII. Darwin: Man in a sequence
Illustration by DALL·E Darwin: Man in a sequence Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was the thinker who added a historical perspective to the picture Linnaeus had painted: animal species that look like each other in their skeleton necessarily evolved from a common ancestor. Hence the caricature of viewpoint which was quickly adopted by conservative Christian opinion: ‘Man…
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Paul Jorion 4 May 2024 ‘Has the Singularity taken place yet?’ / Teilhard de Chardin 1950 ‘Ultra-Human’, by Malcolm Dean
Illustration by DALL·E from the text Listening to many speakers on AI, I’ve noticed that the word “evolution”—which constantly filled our ears over the recent decades—is rarely used by those involved in using or creating AI technologies. Of course, Ray Kurzweil uses the word, and so does Moustafa Suleyman. For some years I’ve stated that…