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
Tagged: machine
Machines, mechanical systems…
Gilbert Simondon, « philosopher of information »?
Gilbert Simondon, reread 40 years later by digital thinkers, is praised as the “first philosopher of information”. What to think of this “sacrament”?
2 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
Body and Language Games
Mathematical activity is an excellent illustration of the coupling of the body and language games, i.e. their reciprocal modifications when they “dialogue”.
7 March 2020
PageRank, Parcoursup and other Moral Machines
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
28 September 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
Homo Amazonus
A brief history of the past, present and future of this new consumer discovered in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, founding boss of Amazon.com.
30 June 2018
Return to Babylon
A daring parallel brings us back to Babylonian times. Do our algorithms play a role comparable to the old clay tablets?
21 November 2017
Being Stuart Russell – The comeback of Moral Philosophy
As the horizon of “intelligent” machines is autonomy, the question of their “ethics” is raised. Let’s follow Stuart Russell, AI researcher, on this topic.
30 September 2017