AI is at the Heart of the New Communication Ecosystem

Ethical issues cannot be limited to models: they must extend to the creation of the data that drives them, i.e. to all of our online behavior. […] We generally focus on the direct reception of our messages, but we must bear in mind that we contribute indirectly – through the models we train – to answering our contemporaries’ questions, writing their texts, teaching students, guiding policies, etc.

Are social networks and AI responsible for our misfortunes?

For more than thirty years, the majority of journalists, politicians, teachers, and all those who shape opinion have not stopped denouncing the dangers of computing, then of the Internet, and now of artificial intelligence. I would do nothing very useful if I added my lamentations to theirs.

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.

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.