Sophie Nordmann - Leçon inaugurale : Pour un éclairage sur l'intelligence.

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), France Culture, "Scientific Perspectives," January 1987: I was also thinking about the danger of this kind of intelligence, again in relation to the, let's say, mechanistic and industrial technologies of the 19th century, one of the results of which was to neglect the body—I mean the human body. That is to say, by precisely mechanizing its functions, we have made the body almost a useless object, which must be treated separately in a therapeutic way, precisely because it is an object left behind. And one of the results, perhaps, of this overdevelopment—I would almost say cancerous—of brain models, simulations, and so on, would unfortunately be to leave our brains neglected in the same way that the body was neglected by the 19th century. And one possible outcome would be that the human brain, properly speaking, would essentially become, at that point, a kind of superfluous, unnecessary thing, something that would need to be dealt with in another way—I don't know, by finding new ways to use this organ that has become useless, I don't know, it's a problem. This is by analogy with the body, but no one is saying that, since development occurs through extension, this last organ, this ultimate organ, will ultimately suffer the same fate. Source: https://www.radiofrance.fr/francecult... Further reference: Jacques Carbou, *The Mechanization of the Mind: Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism*, Les éditions du Verbe Haut, 2022. PLATO, *Gorgias*, GF-Flammarion, p. 278: Socrates: I believe I am one of the few Athenians, if not the only one, who is committed to the true art of politics, and that I alone practice it today. As always when I speak with someone, I don't speak to please them, but aim for what is most useful, not most agreeable, and since I cannot bring myself to do those pretty things you advise, I will have nothing to say before my judges. […] I will be judged as a doctor accused before children by a cook. Indeed, consider what such an accused person, caught in the midst of such judges, could argue in his defense if he were accused in these terms: “Children, this man has often harmed you, and he deforms the youngest among you by cutting and burning them; he drives them to despair by making them thin and suffocating them; he gives them very bitter drinks, forces them to suffer hunger and thirst, instead of feasting you, as I do, on a thousand exquisite and varied things.” What do you think the doctor caught in this hornet's nest could say? If he were to say, as is true, "I did all this, children, only for your health," what an outcry do you think such judges would raise? Wouldn't it be violent? Lamia El Badawi, Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications, Ellipses, p. 11: The term "intelligence" as we use it today is derived from the Latin *intelligere*, which means to understand, that is, "to grasp with the mind," to apprehend knowledge in a relevant way. It is the ability to grasp a large amount of information and to create relationships between it. It is therefore defined in terms of quantity: producing numerous connections, and quality: making relevant connections. #philosophy #interview