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Pierre Levy ๐ŸŒป
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Founder Collective Intelligence 1994, Becoming Virtual 1995, Cyberculture 1997, The Semantic Sphere 2011 #IEML #MentalHealth #Crypto #AI #Edu #Geopol
Montreal, PQ, Canadapierrelevyblog.comBorn July 2, 1956Joined November 2008

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ยซย The Symbolic Speciesย ยป, by T. W. Deacon, even if 25 years old, is excellent. A classic in evolutionary neuro-cognitive sciences.
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"An imaginative way to incorporate AI-generated text into teaching could be for the teacher to employ Transformer AI to generate a set of alternative essays on a topic, then ask students to critique these and write their own better versions."
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Replying to @KTDigital
Well, you might try my open access opinion piece in Journal of AIED. It begins with a brief explanation, then an example of a "student essay" written with GPT-3, then some creative ways to use AI language generators for education.link.springer.com/article/10.100
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ยซย Language models are not knowledge basesย ยป Let that sink in.
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Heard a group of students in the sauna today. All are using #ChatGPT for assignments but worried about staff catching them with detector tools. Unis urgently need policy for ethical use of AI tools, with clear guidelines for students. Here are draft guidelines, courtesy of GPT.
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"trouver le passage entre un rรฉalisme dogmatique, pour qui un รชtre objectif serait indรฉpendant de ceux qui lโ€™apprรฉhendent, et un relativisme irresponsable selon lequel il nโ€™y aurait de rรฉalitรฉ que pour un observateur ou un penseurโ€ฆ " qlq chose entre 1 et 0 (sourire)ยฒ
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"Une espรจce de primates supporte un รฉcosystรจme symbolique : voilร  lโ€™humanitรฉ." Un texte de 2019 in @SensPublic sens-public.org/articles/1396/
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Les IA gรฉnรฉratives ont crรฉรฉ une situation irrรฉversible. Mais attention ร  la censure, aux biais algorithmique et ร  la normalisation des images (et des textes).
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On a demandรฉ ร  ร‰tienne Mineur, designer rรฉputรฉ pour รชtre l'un des premiers ร  travailler avec les intelligences artificielles, ce qu'il pense des bouleversements crรฉรฉs par Dall-E et Midjourney. ladn.eu/mondes-creatif via @LADN_EU
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Aprรจs avoir fait IEML, je rรฉflรฉchis ร  mon prochain livre. Un titre possible ยซย Lโ€™intelligence humaineย ยป Sous titre: ยซย Pensรฉe conceptuelle et production de sensย ยป.
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ยซย LLMs show impressive (although imperfect) performance on tasks requiring formal linguistic competence, but fail on many tests requiring functional competence. For modeling thought, models would need to incorporate multiple non-language-specific cognitive capacities.ย ยป ๐Ÿ‘
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Three years in the making - our big review/position piece on the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) from the cognitive science perspective. Thread below! 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627
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If I was still prof. I would make the use of ChatGPT mandatory for writing essays. The students with the best prompts, dialogue with the system, choice of text and verification of content would have the best marks!
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ยซย The hallucinogenic and fabulist quality of dreams means they are different from the โ€œtraining setโ€ of the animal (i.e., their daily experiences). It is the very strangeness of dreams in their divergence from waking experience that gives them their biological function.ยป
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Erik Hoel proposes something Iโ€™ve suspected all along: dreams are data augmentation! In dreams, your brain mashes up, permutes, and adds random variation to your memories, so you donโ€™t โ€œoverfitโ€ excessively rigid models of your experience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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Last week, & hosted #AGIDebate featuring AI powerhouses for 4hrs! We learned a TON + are sharing our notes w/ y'all! Included: โฆ Profiles & timestamps โฆ Notes & short summaries for all speakers โฆ Comments enabled! โค๏ธ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿš€
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ยซย Algorithms do not simply discern what we want and serve it to us; they train us to want what they can serve us. Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want โ€” they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.ย ยป
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This article by โฆ@wrbuclaโฉ is probably not a self-evident read for many, but it really is a must-read, punching through narrative and mythos alike. โ€œDigital abundance is a mixed blessing: exhilarating, yet flattening and homogenizing.โ€ Atomising. noemamag.com/hyperconnected
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Happy New Year๐ŸŒŸะฉะฐัะปะธะฒะพะณะพ ะะพะฒะพะณะพ ั€ะพะบัƒ ๐ŸŽ‰ุณุงู„ ู†ูˆ ู…ุจุงุฑฺฉ ๐ŸฅนBonne et heureuse annรฉe!๐Ÿ˜˜ ุณู†ู‡ ุฌุฏูŠุฏู‡ ุณุนูŠุฏู‡ ฮ•ฯ…ฯ„ฯ…ฯ‡ฮนฯƒฮผฮญฮฝฮฟ ฯ„ฮฟ ฮฝฮญฮฟ ฮญฯ„ฮฟฯ‚ โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅBon any nou ืฉื ื” ื˜ื•ื‘ื” Jabulela unyaka omusha เฆถเงเฆญ เฆจเฆฌ เฆฌเฆฐเงเฆท ะจะธะฝั ะพะฝั‹ ะผัะฝะด ั…าฏั€ะณัะต ใ‚ใ‘ใพใ—ใฆใŠใ‚ใงใจใ† ์ƒˆํ•ด ๋ณต ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐ›์œผ์„ธ์š” โœจแžšแžธแž€แžšแžถแž™โ€‹แž†แŸ’แž“แžถแŸ†โ€‹แžแŸ’แž˜แžธ
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Because statistical learning is not enough to reach a real practical knowledge of the world. We need also better knowledge representation, reference, reasonning and effective language understanding (see my pinned post). Statistical learning is only one part of the solution. IMHO.
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was thinking about our semiotic trails and the way we make sense of them with a view to collective intelligence long before I realized the connection between our private and public lives from the perspective of data. Enjoy the Dialogue (real one)
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