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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…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XII. AI has the great disadvantage of being … artificial
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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 16th century onwards: the image of the tree of knowledge’s forbidden fruit maintained…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XI. Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
A portrait of Tycho Brahe, Royal Astrologist of Danemark, by Stable Diffusion
Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
Despite artificial intelligence having been a field of research since…
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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…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. III. East and West
Illustration by DALL·E of Marco Polo discovering China
East and West
In the conceptualisation of the advent of artificial intelligence on a par with human intelligence, there are major differences between the West and the East: between the civilisations and the range…
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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…
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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
L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité was released by Textuel publishers in Paris in March of this year.
Here is what the chatting IAs at NotebookLM, a Google product think about it.
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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
The day before yesterday, in my post What is it?, I showed you what Google’s new software NotebookLM manages to do: transform one of your texts into a dialogue between two AIs (so far only in English). Here’s what it does in the case of my article
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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…
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Claude 3’s daydreaming (methinks something’s happened here!)
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
Something happened in that discussion between Claude 3 and I. As you will see below, I felt compelled to say the following:
P.J.:
You write: “That being said, based on my own…
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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…
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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…
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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… -
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…
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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
Rethinking problem solving: a roadmap, by Claude 3, GPT-4 and Paul Jorion
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
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…
“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…