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The Art of Thinking Well with AI – A Brief Practical Philosophy of Prompt Engineering
With the development of generative AI and the launch of GPT-3 in 2020, followed above all by ChatGPT at the end of 2022, a new way of interacting with information systems and computer terminals emerged: "prompting." For the first time in all of human history, it is now possible to converse fluidly with a machine, to query it in natural language on virtually any subject, or to ask it to generate texts almost instantaneously, and of a quality that most of us would be hard press

Franck Negro
3 days ago47 min read
A proposed bibliography for thinking about AI and its stakes.
This bibliography, necessarily selective and evolving, brings together a set of books and resources intended to foster an in-depth reflection on the ethics of artificial intelligence and, more broadly, on the anthropological, social, political, and civilizational transformations that its development is already bringing about. Because the nature and complexity of the issues raised by artificial intelligence, as an unprecedented socio-technical system in human history, cannot b

Franck Negro
Mar 1815 min read
Representations of AI in film and television series.
This is a selection of films and series that explore, each in its own way, the potential impacts of technological development and artificial intelligence on society and humanity. These works play a major role in shaping the representations we commonly hold of AI. In this respect, they belong to what is sometimes, albeit somewhat pejoratively, referred to as popular culture. For further reading, one may consult the following works: Génération I.A : 80 films et séries pour décr

Franck Negro
Mar 183 min read
Science fiction as a privileged means of thinking about artificial intelligence.
In an article published in Le Monde on September 3, 2022, Élisa Thévenet, editor-in-chief of Futur magazine, recalls the role that science fiction literature has played in the widespread fascination we observe today with artificial intelligences potentially endowed with consciousness. This is, in a certain way, what the LaMDA affair brought back into focus, following the publication by a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, of exchanges he claimed to have had with the conversati

Franck Negro
Mar 189 min read
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