GPT-3, LaMDA, Wu Dao… The blooming of “monster” AIs
Neuromimetic AIs can now write, draw, compose music… Far from being “conscious”, what do they tell us about being human?
Body, lived body, hardware…
Neuromimetic AIs can now write, draw, compose music… Far from being “conscious”, what do they tell us about being human?
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
How can the work of anthropologist Philippe Descola, “Beyond Nature and Culture”, be applied to our digital world?
Photography, a system of technical essence, unveils by analogy the whole technical “progress” (inspired by the philosopher Henri Van Lier)
In the footsteps of the mathematician-philosopher René Thom, we set out to meet these “singularities” that seem to escape the digital grip.
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
Elon Musk acts like a feudal lord, vassal of the technological system. Will we be resistant enough to live in the “territories” conquered by this tough guy?
How close can one become to a digitized artefact? Not to the point, we think, of ever being able to fall “in love” with it.