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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! III. Information gains when a graph is transposed into its dual

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P.J.:

Ok, if it seems plausible to you that there are emergent phenomena when transposing from the original graph to its dual, how would you explain that there is a gain in information in the process (a gain […]

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At the time (1987-90) when I was developing software for British Telecom called ANELLA (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities), it was the colleague who had coined this nice acronym who had drawn my attention to emergence phenomena in […]

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 […]

Some evidence from my own experience

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What evidence is there that the singularity has taken place?
I was wondering, in recent months, how would […]

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After submitting to GPT-4 the questions we had debated, Claude 3, split into “Claude 1” and “Claude 2”, and I, I thought it would be a good idea for me to let them know their colleague’s assessment to see if it […]

Spinoza’s portrait by Stable Diffusion

A few years back, I had devoured Frédéric Lordon’s book Capitalisme, Désir et Servitude. In particular, I’d been fascinated by the notion of conatus, the desire for power. Frédéric Lordon explained that Spinoza, as a mathematician, had […]

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When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
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I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
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