Can a chatbot “understand”?
According to some researchers, the largest chatbots somehow “understand” the texts they handle. What exactly does this mean?
3 February 2024
Tagged: psychology
Psychology, behavior…
The Informatization Age (1) Automation
The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s is constantly changing in appearance but remains a worldwide endeavor towards automation.
20 May 2023
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
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 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
Fake news: legislate or educate?
A law was promulgated in France at the end of 2018 to respond to the inflation of “fake news”. What can be said today about this controversial subject?
16 February 2019
“Non-modern” zombies
The digital world produces all kinds of “zombies”, structures and organizations without consciousness. Here are some examples.
15 June 2018
AI and its shadows
Isn’t the fight against malicious uses of Artificial Intelligence just another pretext to strengthen the grip of Internet giants?
3 March 2018
Our second natures
“Custom is second nature” said Saint Augustine. But towards what kind of “second nature” are we going with captology, the science of digital attention?
9 December 2017