The NFT Tsunami : about (N)othingness (F)renzy and (T)iepolo
Reading Time: 9 minutes The NFT Tsunami : about (N)othingness (F)renzy and (T)iepolo The recent explosion of NFTs was a…
Can Data Die? From Cyber Immortality to Digital Spiritism.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Can Data Die? From Cyber Immortality to Digital Spiritism. “Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst…
Serendipity or Algorithm
Reading Time: 7 minutes Serendipity ou Algorithme QUID SERENDIPITY ? The word Serendipity is attributed to Horace Walpole, 4th Earl…
XenoBots (living robots) – Medical revolution or Ethical mindfield?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Living Robots (Xenobots): A medical revolution or Ethical minefield ? What are Xenobots? “They’re neither a…
Probability, causality, and how they impact responsibility
Reading Time: 5 minutes Probability, causality, and how they impact responsibility “Artificial intelligence” algorithms are probabilistic and lack causality. Can…
Open What? Confidentiality in digital times.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Open What? Confidentiality in digital times Confidentiality and innovation Innovation is one of the major keys…
Why Beautyful Things Move Us to Tears…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The hidden Beauty… The sky with the mysteries, Making a journey among the stars.…
“The Chinese Room” Experiment by John Searle – discussed
Reading Time: 6 minutes “The Chinese Room” by John Searle – No “mind” in a computer ! “Some years…
COVID-19 Vaccine Passports – between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Reading Time: 12 minutes COVID-19 Vaccine Passports – between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Vaccinations have been rolling…
“Explain Explainability” or why AI Narrative does matter. About words, terms and notions used and misused.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Definitions. Terminologies. Explanation. Words. “Explainability” – please explain! Explainability has become a word à la mode.…
An interview with… Merve HICKOK – AIethicist.org / “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021”
Reading Time: 6 minutes Interview with… Merve Hickok Founder of AIethicist.org and voted as one of the “100 Brilliant Women…
“Machine Intelligence”: What if, in 1955, Minsky, McCarthy, Shannon and Rochester had named “Artificial Intelligence” differently?
Reading Time: 11 minutes Language is key. Language makes us communicate. We give meaning to words and words shape our…
Self-Esteem and Ethics
Reading Time: 5 minutes Self-Esteem and Ethics Be yourself, all the other personalities are already taken – Oscar Wilde How…
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Reading Time: 10 minutes HEINZ VON FOERSTER (1911-2002) Austrian-American “Weltmensch” Born in the imperial Vienna in 1911, Heinz…
The Mummy vs the Cyborgs : a (bio)epic battle ahead !
Reading Time: 9 minutes The Mummy vs the Cyborgs: a (bio)epic battle ahead! Ethics came first, then history Repeat with…
Counting carbon…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Counting carbon… As a teenager, I still remember certain Sundays spent revising my physics-chemistry exams, with,…
Female robots like Sophia, Ai-da, Erica : a dubious kind of Ai PR !
Reading Time: 10 minutes The robots Sophia, Ai-da, Erica and other gynoids Female robots, gynoids, fembots : on a mission…
Can a company be ethical ?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can a company be ethical ? When, a few days ago, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos sent…
The Musical Soul of Algorithms
Reading Time: 6 minutes Does the Universe have a musical soul? Do algorithms are a musical soul?
Artificial intelligences
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are several ways to obtain an “artificial intelligence” (AI), and each one is associated with…