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?
1 October 2022
Tagged: body
Body, lived body, hardware…
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger and the Others
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
15 January 2022
A reading of Philippe Descola
How can the work of anthropologist Philippe Descola, “Beyond Nature and Culture”, be applied to our digital world?
13 November 2021
The “progress” unveiled by Photography (with Henri Van Lier)
Photography, a system of technical essence, unveils by analogy the whole technical “progress” (inspired by the philosopher Henri Van Lier)
17 July 2021
The Body of René Thom (singularities)
In the footsteps of the mathematician-philosopher René Thom, we set out to meet these “singularities” that seem to escape the digital grip.
20 March 2021
Ecce Homo Mathematicus
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
3 October 2020
The « Individual » in the light of information theories
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
8 August 2020
The Brain is an Edge (not a Center)
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
11 July 2020
Elon Musk, special vassal
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?
23 May 2020
Attachment to Simulacra
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.
11 April 2020