What if the social illusion of machines revealed our loss of direction?

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?

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No Hello, No Goodbye

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…

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Does AI Really Think?

“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…

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What if an AI had something to say about how we talk to it?

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…

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Risks, Innovation and the Future of AI

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…

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What if AI Were Our Opportunity?

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,…

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Existential coffee

Existential CoffeeCoffee: ontological substance or a mere pretext for existence?Deprived of hot coffee for odontological reasons, I was reflecting on this very subject with ChatGPT. I shared the idea that a philosophical dissertation on the role of coffee in the existentialist perception—without "bad faith" or thinking that "Hell is other…

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