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Intelligence & Société N°3, a review by NotebookLM
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Video – LLMs: Will we run out of data?
Synthetic data will be plenty and of a higher standard than human-produced
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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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“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…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIII. Scaling up
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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…
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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…
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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. 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…
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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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An Ambitious Project II. Consciousness: Claude is enthusiastic. I test her or him right away.
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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…
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An Ambitious Project I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mine
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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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Are Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of producing new concepts ? Palestine/Israel: the entangled narratives paradox
Illustration by DALL·E from the text
With reference to Deleuze: if what a philosopher does is to forge concepts to correctly pose the problems of his time, in the same way that an artist creates percepts, what about…
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! V. Towards an understanding of complex relational networks that better reflects the true nature of human intelligence
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P.J.:
Great! I’m totally reassured about your grasping the emergent process. Now, you must have noticed that while the growth of the original graph is fully transparent to human beings (you add a new word attached as a label…
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! IV. An approach consistent to learning in biological neural networks
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P.J.:
Ok. If that’s clear to you, you will be acquired to the idea that when new information is provided for graph build-up, it shouldn’t be through reversing to the original graph (which would entail loss of information)…
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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…
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! II. Can it be observed with a simple transpose?
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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…
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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…
