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It is fair to say that we have little idea about how neural activity gives rise to consciousness, and about the relationship between neural activity and conscious states (i.e., what you are experie…
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The philosophical misconception behind the LLM cult (or why LLMs will always bullshit)
There is this idea that if a large language model (LLM) is trained on a large corpus of text, then it knows whatever knowledge is in that corpus. Improving the performance is then essentially a matter of scaling: as you expand the database, you expand kno
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No, chatbots are not scientists
I can't believe I need to write this, but apparently, I do. Many journals and preprint sites are now overwhelmed with chatbot-generated submissions. This is bad, but at least it gets characterized as fraud, something that we need to defend against. What I
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Science et démocratie
Alors que les universités sont attaquées frontalement aux Etats-Unis (J.D. Vance donnait en 2021 une conférence intitulée : The Universities are the Enemy ), on redécouvre l'importance cruciale pour la démocratie d'une science indépendante des pouvoirs. I
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Notes on consciousness. (XI) Why large language models are not conscious
The current discussions about AI are plagued with anthropomorphism. Of course, the name "artificial intelligence" has probably something to do with the matter. A conscious artificial intelligence might sound like science-fiction, but a sentient statistica
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On the existential risks of artificial intelligence
The impressive progresses in machine learning have revived the fear that humans might eventually be wiped out or enslaved by artificial superintelligences. This is hardly a new fear. For example, this fear is the basis of most of Isaac Asimov's books, who
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