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
Tagged: technic
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
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
Emergence of a digital natural environment
5G, satellite constellations… The digital network is mutating into a digital environment and, at the same time, is becoming a major geopolitical issue for the 2020s.
9 March 2019
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
From the infosphere to a “gaseous” ethics
The philosopher Luciano Floridi proposes an “information ethics” supposed to lead us in a world transformed by the digital revolution.
17 March 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
Trevor Paglen along submarine cables
Invitation to follow the submarine cables with the artist Trevor Paglen and to explore the geography of the economic interests that they draw.
3 November 2017