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: ecology
Ecology, natural environment…
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
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
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
About this delusion of a “green” digital world
Can digital be “green”? What about this “delusion” as the energy needs of the digital world seem unlimited and opposite to any will for sobriety?
23 September 2018
Jacques Ellul and the Technological System
Following Mumford, relayed by Aldous Huxley, the philosopher Jacques Ellul developed a deep and always vivid thought about our technical world.
3 September 2017