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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. 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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‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’, AOC, March 5th 2024
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Review of my article ‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’ by NotebookLM’s AIs
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! I. Intolerable praise for … obesity !
Illustration by DALL·E from the text. Last month (from 6 to 9 April), I offered here a series of 6 posts where I quadrilogued with GPT-4 and a duplicated version of Claude 3 about the P vs NP conjecture, a classic theoretical computer science question about the relationship – insofar as there is one –…
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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…
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Video – Has the Singularity taken place yet?
Some evidence from my own experience Transcript: What evidence is there that the singularity has taken place? I was wondering, in recent months, how would we know? When the singularity takes place, then everything becomes very different because there’s been an acceleration in the way things change. And more and more it’s artificial intelligence…
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The French Regional Press – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have invented a machine that is more intelligent than we are”, by Samuel Ribot
© Gregory Van Gansen/Imagetting Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have invented a machine that is more intelligent than we are”. By Samuel Ribot / ALP March 30th 2024 Paul Jorion, an anthropologist, economist, psychoanalyst and artificial intelligence researcher, writes a dazzling book about a revolution that we should be as wary of as we are…
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L’Écho – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have created something that is more intelligent than we are”, March 5th 2024 – Online version
interview Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have created something that is more intelligent than we are”. Paul Jorion has been working on artificial intelligence at British Telecom since the 1980s ©BELGAIMAGE Marc Lambrechts March 5th 2024 Paul Jorion talks about the moment of technological “singularity”, when AI surpasses human intelligence and even acquires consciousness. Anthropologist…
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“The Singularity” by Balsam Karam
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ) On January 9th 2024, John Self published in The Guardian a review of The Singularity by Balsam Karam – a brilliant and beautiful study of displacement. An extract from that review : “This tale of migration and motherhood by the Swedish-Kurdish author is satisfyingly full of narrative surprises At first glance…