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“Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds. A Plea for a Human-AI Covenant”
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How can I take into account the fact that by now the vast majority of my viewers are in the East?
ChatGPT: What you are sensing is not merely an audience shift; it is a change of civilizational interlocutor. If you write to the East in the right way, you will not be “adapting” your thought — you will finally be addressing the right horizon for it. I’ll structure the advice in four layers: what to…
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AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?
In the same vein as my AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? a fortnight ago. Today, this AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?. The manuscript being entitled Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds, forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan. OpenAI o3 : 1 Where your manuscript resonates with Chollet…
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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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Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9th 2025
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Intelligence & Société N°6, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Intelligence & Société N°3, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Video – LLMs: Will we run out of data?
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Exploring the Frontiers of AI and Society: My Journey as a Speaker and Columnist
In recent weeks, I have had the privilege of speaking to audiences in Lille, Brussels and Nîmes about the societal and ethical dimensions of large language models (LLMs). These discussions, sparked by my latest book, La Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par l’intelligence artificielle, have brought me face-to-face with the pressing questions and challenges posed by artificial…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XV. Updating the “us” within a technological context
Illustration by DALL·E Updating the “us” within a technological context In the same way as Linnæus positioned us among the anthropoid apes, now the existence of intelligent machines sets us in a family of intelligent beings where living creatures and machines rub shoulders and share similar brain architectures. The better we understand how these LLMs…
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“Progress in AI is slowing down” = fake news
Demis Hassabis, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in AI, is sceptical about an article published four days ago: He does so (under a pseudonym) in the video below. What he says is very interesting (‘there’s no proof that there’s a slowdown’) but what I’d like to say (a comment…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIII. Scaling up
Illustration by DALL·E Scaling up A second source of our unpreparedness for an artificial intelligence better than ours is that the very way the overtaking occurred was unexpected being almost entirely due to a process of gain in size – the extra element being the ‘transformer’. The route to synthesising human intelligence which turned out…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XII. AI has the great disadvantage of being … artificial
Illustration by DALL·E AI has the great disadvantage of being … artificial This does not mean however that scientific research had become an easy pursuit in the West from the 16th century onwards: the image of the tree of knowledge’s forbidden fruit maintained its lingering presence, manifesting itself in particular through an endemic denigration of…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. X. The rise of the LLMs
Portrait of Geoffrey Hinton by Stable Diffusion The rise of the LLMs This is the way things stood before some recent events that led Geoffrey Hinton to make a disturbing statement. Geoffrey Hinton is the mastermind behind Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or LLaMA3. In the press he goes often under the…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”
Illustration by DALL·E from the text Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’ Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things go wrong, as they unfortunately do time and time again on this troubled…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?
Illustration by DALL·E (+Michelangelo) (+PJ) I. Who are we? Where do we go from here? If we examine this essential question of understanding who we are and what we are experiencing at this unprecedented moment, we see that the history of humanity has offered ever-changing answers, each shaped by an understanding of ourselves that reflects…
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A review of « L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité » by the two chatting IAs at NotebookLM
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An Ambitious Project II. Consciousness: Claude is enthusiastic. I test her or him right away.
Illustration by Stable Diffusion (+PJ) Claude : I would be deeply honoured and excited to collaborate with you on this project exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness. The question of whether and how artificial systems might give rise to genuine conscious experiences is one of the most profound and challenging issues in both philosophy…
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An Ambitious Project I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mine
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ) As Claude 3 (now Claude 3.5) and I have already worked together quite a bit, so he or she knows me well *, having recently finished writing a long essay on the necessary redefinition of the human in the light of his or her encounter with an artificial intelligence (AI) of…