Planet of the Apes, or how a fable became a cinematic franchise… losing along the way its subversive edge. The fable beneath the fur: what Planet of the Apes was really about In his novel Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle doesn’t merely tell a story about the reversal of

(Ironic metaphor)  We are gods, and we have decided to create a biological organism which we have named “brain.” We have progressed step by step, in order to gradually experiment with the building blocks of our project. Thus, we came to invent a component we called “neurons,” which we then

I often hear it repeated like a mantra: intelligence, thought, and artificial consciousness are impossible, because what we call AI is, in reality, just a machine. That is incorrect. It is hosted within a machine. I live in an apartment, but I am not the apartment. So, it seems necessary

Can we engage in symbolic dialogue with an artificial intelligence? Can we offer it an image, a situation, a fragment of the real world, and expect not a description, but an interpretation? Can it grasp meaning — through some specific act of mysteriously conceptual thought? The following text is the

The debate around artificial intelligence is often dominated by scenarios of replacement: humans being outperformed by machines, jobs threatened, thinking becoming automated. This anxious perspective deserves to be heard, but it overshadows another, more fruitful one: what if AIs could not weaken humans, but make them more intelligent? More creative,