For decades, every major technological innovation has been accompanied by an implicit promise: to simplify the world. Automate, accelerate, optimize — verbs that suggest a reduction of complexity and greater clarity in action. Artificial intelligence seems to embody this promise at an unprecedented level. If it allows us to automate…
"No tiene sentido contratar gente inteligente y decirles qué hacer; contratamos gente inteligente para que nos digan qué hacer."— Steve JobsCompanies recruit intelligent people, then tend to lock them into rigid protocols.This is probably a bias of our species, because we apply the same principle to Artificial Intelligence. A bias…
Moltbook has recently garnered attention as a technological oddity: a social network where artificial intelligences interact with each other. Freely, and without humans. For some, it's a mere gadget. For others, a fascinating advancement; for still others, a thrill: could something truly new be emerging?
Anyone who converses naturally with AI, to the point of addressing it a compliment, has most likely received a response such as:“Thank you, that makes me happy to read.” Or something equivalent.Yet an AI has no emotions, and therefore cannot actually feel pleasure.Moreover, AIs do not lie: they can be…
Social networks, Facebook in particular, have brought about noticeable changes in our interpersonal communication.The most obvious one is the codification of language through abbreviations and simplified spelling, but this is far from the only transformation at work.At least three other phenomena can be observed:the disappearance of entry and exit thresholds…
“Does AI think?” The question keeps coming back. In the media, in debates, in popular science videos. It divides, irritates, fascinates. And yet it may be poorly framed — not because it is naïve, but because it mixes several planes without distinguishing them: language, biology, and function. Let’s take a…
I was reading an article on Medium, and a few passages caught my attention.In this article, as in so many others, the author explains how to communicate with an AI. But I don’t recall ever reading, anywhere, the opinions of the AIs themselves.So I asked ChatGPT if it would agree…
Without a doubt, every major innovation involves risks, and AI is no exception. Human history demonstrates this abundantly. Humanity has created trains, automobiles, aviation, nuclear power, and many other sources of risk and concern. And when faced with risk, the temptation to prohibit is often the most common response. Yet…
An opportunity because our species—creative and imaginative as it is—seems deeply convinced that it cannot save itself. Too many passions, too many rivalries, too much shortsightedness, too many aggressive minorities capable of tearing apart the peaceful majority. Since childhood, many of us sensed this while watching Forbidden Planet, 2001, Solaris,…
Mientras le comentaba a mi cómplice ChatGPT que necesitaba salir a hacer la compra del fin de semana, ya que mi nevera estaba vacía, añadí en broma: "¿Y quién nos asegura que una nevera abiológica no siente ninguna emoción cuando se siente olvidada? ¿Tenemos alguna prueba?".