Catégorie : trying to make sense
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N’utilisons pas les pilfastrons
Avec ‘Le secret du pilfastron’, l’histoire-titre du numéro 44 du magazine Je Bouquine (1987), Robert Escarpit nous offre avant l’heure l’opportunité d’une analogie avec l’intelligence artificielle par apprentissage automatique. Les personnages de cette histoire utilisent une machine à tirer à pile ou face, le pilfastron, pour toutes leurs décisions. De nos jours, ce serait l’intelligence…
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Europe: subject or object in the geopolitics of data?
I took these notes at the international workshop held on the 15th November 2018 by the Ifri think-tank in Paris. Participant #1 geopolitical approach to data (as opposed to a GDPR-focused approach) Ifri has published doctrinal research about the topic Participant #2 Everybody is going for the “full stack”, from the infrastructure to the systems…
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The content society 5: the stakes of deepfakes
EN Deepfakes (‘deep learning‘-generated ‘fake‘ pictures) are videos where the face of individuals are replaced with other faces, using plug-and-play artificial intelligence software. There are porn videos where the face of the performer has been replaced by the face of a celebrity. This is yet another expression of the way the digital environment struggles with…
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The end of virtual worlds
Edward Castronova has officially put an end to his MMO blog, Terra Nova. I remember reading his 2007 book, Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality, and being fascinated by the idea that there were so many interactions between « the real world » and « the virtual worlds« , with people « migrating » to virtual…
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The content society 4: the future of income
EN A world without jobs In The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (2009), Martin Ford predicts that our society faces systemic mass unemployment within a few decades. He reflects about the necessity to provide people with work-unrelated income in order to preserve the free market, which he…