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Avant de confier craindre l’avènement d’une société où les individus, las des risques et des responsabilités qu’implique l’engagement IRL, renonceraient massivement aux béguins, crushs et autres embrasements entre humains. Et cela au profit d’un compagnonnage numérique si réconfortant qu’il en devient d’ores et déjà, parfois, obsédant. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2025/04/26/la-digi-romance-ou-comment-tomber-amoureux-d-une-ia-ca-a-commence-comme-une-blague-avant-de-devenir-serieux_6600194_4497916.html

Chaque année, plus de 20 millions de nouveaux cas sont diagnostiqués à travers la planète, rapporte l’Organisation mondiale de la santé. Avec un décès sur six qui lui est attribué, le cancer est ainsi la deuxième cause de mortalité dans le monde, derrière les maladies cardiovasculaires. En France, c’est même l’ennemi public numéro un, 25 % des…

In any case, you could not do “one shot” with the oracle — you had to put a bit of effort into it.  If you simply approached them and asked for a prophecy of the future (and did nothing else) you would get no meaningful response.  In contemporary terminology, you needed a bit of prompting.…

we don’t know why, but we have tried to talk separately, but it’s not ourselves, it’s not us — Read on kottke.org/25/04/twins-speaking-twins-speaking-in-unison-in-unison

Coren adapted tests used for human infants to research dogs’ language-learning abilities. “We found that the average dog has a mental age of between two and two-and-a-half years [in human terms],” he says, one of his dogs barking in the background. “The super-dogs, the upper 20% in terms of intelligence, have a mental age of…

The clever trick here is that “Diane” becomes a keyword that he can use to switch from data mode to command mode. He can say “Diane I meant to include that point in the last section. Please move it” as part of a stream of consciousness and Claude will make those edits as part of…

Is what you’re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it’s probably going to be great at it. If you’re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you’re asking it to create…

The United Arab Emirates aims to use AI to help write new legislation and review and amend existing laws, in the Gulf state’s most radical attempt to harness a technology into which it has poured billions. The plan for what state media called “AI-driven regulation” goes further than anything seen elsewhere, AI researchers said, while…

In a normal evolutionary bottleneck, the goal is surviving some immediate physical threat — a plague or famine, an earthquake, flood or meteor strike. The bottleneck of the digital age is different: The new era is killing us softly, by drawing people out of the real and into the virtual, distracting us from the activities…

This erosion of critical thinking is compounded by the AI-driven algorithms that dictate what we see on social media. “The impact of social media on critical thinking is enormous,” says Gerlich. “To get your video seen, you have four seconds to capture someone’s attention.” The result? A flood of bite-size messages that are easily digested…