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: future
Future, prophecies, predictions…
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
Welcome in the Metaverse
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
14 August 2021
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
Following Julian Jaynes: comeback of the Bicameral Mind?
While the theories of “consciousness” are progressing, isn’t the human of the 21st century (re)engaged towards a form of “non-consciousness”?
21 August 2019
The promises of quantum computing
Google, IBM, Microsoft … will soon announce “quantum supremacy”. What are the main challenges of this new IT paradigm?
21 July 2019
Artificial Intelligence-Art in its infancy
Is art, “hacked” by artificial intelligence, just a new product of design? Or could “AI-art” one day come across insolence and spirituality?
16 June 2019
Companies: changes in the face of complexity
Immersed in an increasingly complex and technical environment, companies are undergoing radical changes. Several ways are possible…
18 May 2019
The Mirrors of the “I”
In 2001, philosopher Francisco Varela underwent a transplant and meditated on identity. Body, technique and identity: a very contemporary triptych.
28 April 2019