The aim of this article is to elucidate the anthropological conditions of possibility for computing. I will first show how symbolic manipulation is constitutive of hominization. Secondly, I will examine the gradual widening of the gearing between the sensorial world (signifiers) and the intelligible world (concepts) during cultural evolution. Following on from these analyses, I’ll comment some of the main features of contemporary digital civilization, including the development of generative artificial intelligence.
Archives de l’auteur : Pierre Lévy
Towards Reasonable Agents
How can we graft symbolic encoding and decoding capabilities onto a neural model that can initially only recognize and generate sensory forms or aggregates of signifiers? This challenge is reminiscent of the process of hominization – when biological neural networks became capable of manipulating symbolic systems – which is not to my displeasure.
Artificial Intelligence at the Service of Collective Intelligence
My wish is for a digital memory that will enable us to cultivate diverse and fertile ecosystems of ideas and reap the maximum benefits for human development.
THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE
Let’s think about the new digital public sphere. I will begin by discussing the anthropological and demographic context of the public sphere shift into the digital environment. Then I will analyze the original forms of memory and communication supported by the new medium. I will then evoke the figures of domination and alienation specific toLire la suite « THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE »
IEML in Global Medical Communication
What is IEML ? IEML – Information Economy Meta Language – is a mathematical language with the same expressive power as a natural language. It has a dictionary of 3000 concepts plus a regular grammar allowing to build recursively an infinity of sentences representing concepts and relations. IEML has the same expressive power as aLire la suite « IEML in Global Medical Communication »
Semantic Computing with IEML
IEML has the expressive power of a natural language, and it is also an algebra. Its semantics are computable!
Semantics, artificial intelligence and collective intelligence
How does language work? On the receiving end, we hear a sequence of sounds that we translate into a network of concepts. This is what we call « understanding the meaning » of a statement we hear. On the transmit side, we have in mind a network of concepts – a meaning to be conveyed – that we translate into a sequence of sounds.
IEML for Digital Humanities
IEML is a programmable modeling and indexing tool, capable of ensuring semantic interoperability, without standardizing the different points of view.
IEML: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Artificial Intelligence
IEML has the expressive power of a natural language and the syntax of a regular language. Its semantics are unambiguous and computable because they are an explicit function of its syntax. A neuro-semantic architecture based on IEML combines the strengths of neural AI and classical symbolic AI while enabling integration of knowledge through an interoperable computing of semantics.
Semantic Computing with IEML
Based on the Information Economy MetaLanguage (IEML), semantic computing brings together several perspectives: an improvement of artificial intelligence, a solution to the problem of semantic interoperability, an algebraic model of semantic linguistics: all this at the service of human collective intelligence. Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Every animal has a nervous system. Neuronal computing, which is statisticalLire la suite « Semantic Computing with IEML »
