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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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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 […]

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 […]

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Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride

Humankind’s intelligence has always been praised by humans as maybe their defining quality. Animals around us display some of this intelligence but to a lesser degree, […]

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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 […]

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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 16^th century onwards: the image of the tree of knowledge’s forbidden fruit maintained its […]

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Paul Jorion on A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIII. Scaling upTuesday, November 12, 2024
LLMs deal essentially with language but seems amenable to graphics as well. To such an extent that one may wonder…
bogobogo on A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIII. Scaling upFriday, November 8, 2024
“the marvellous powers of the brain emerge not from any single, uniformly structured connectionist network but from highly evolved arrangements…
Tom on Are Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of producing new concepts ? Palestine/Israel: the entangled narratives paradoxThursday, September 26, 2024
When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
Paul Jorion on An Ambitious Project I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mineThursday, July 18, 2024
I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
Grant Castillou on An Ambitious Project I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mineThursday, July 18, 2024
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
aslan on Claude 3’s daydreaming (methinks something’s happened here!)Sunday, June 16, 2024
Do Androids dream of electric sheeps ? Yes. Thanks Paul.
Paul Jorion on L’Écho – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have created something that is more intelligent than we are”, March 5^th 2024 – Online versionSunday, April 14, 2024
You say that A machine with only primary consciousness will probably have to come first. That’s the way evolution proceeded:…
Grant Castillou on L’Écho – Paul Jorion: “With AI, we have created something that is more intelligent than we are”, March 5^th 2024 – Online versionSaturday, April 13, 2024
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
Paul Jorion on Video – 4 Doom ScenariosMonday, August 31, 2020
I fear your views of AI are pretty much outdated. They pre-date in any case neural networks. What you are…
Benoît on Video – 4 Doom ScenariosThursday, August 27, 2020
Unfortunately IA is not The solution… We have to think outside the box… And IA just calculate fast but inside…