nicolasnova

Un entretien dans l'édition du journal Le Temps de ce week-end à propos de mon dernier livre Persistance du merveilleux : le petit peuple des machines publié chez @PParallele , merci @PhilippeSmn

@san_lambert @universitelaval 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Je soutiens ma thèse de doctorat en anthropologie le 19 décembre à 13h30 (19h30 à Paris) à @universitelaval En présence et en ligne Titre: Les potentialités sociopolitiques des processus participatifs dans les espaces de fabrication numérique à Barcelone fss.ulaval.ca/evenements/sou…

8-bit Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat’s body grew fuzzy, broke down into pixels and then disintegrated, leaving behind only the code of his grin.

"Science/Fiction: A non-history of plants". "The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants". spectorbooks.com/book/science_f…

Mid-sixties AI

@SanNuvola hehe I noticed that too, curious bug

@nicolasnova ...and Jonathan Zittrain!

"Banned Prompt Detected" : Midjourney Bot didn't accept my prompt mentioning Shub-Niggurath, but had no problem with Cthulhu, Tsathoggua or fungi from Yuggoth... What does that say about their community standards?

@SanNuvola Shub-Niggurath is the "David Mayer" of Midjourney... theguardian.com/technology/202…

@nicolasnova might have to do with racial history of that specific ancient one?

"Quel est le rôle des fantômes dans les différentes sociétés ? En prenant les fantômes au sérieux, Grégory Delaplace montre que, par leur intermédiaire, les vivants peuvent aborder nombre d’enjeux" nonfiction.fr/article-12212-…

une histoire fascinante

@bruces speaking of which, have you seen this paper? journals.openedition.org/hybrid/4880

@wmmna @USBEKetRICA @PParallele lol

@nicolasnova @USBEKetRICA @PParallele l'article commence bien! "En quinze ans, Nicolas Nova a déjà publié plus d’une vingtaine de livres." on a tous l'air de feignasses maintenant.

« Les créatures mythologiques sont toujours là dans nos machines. » En entretien avec @USBEKetRICA à propos de Persistance du merveilleux publié chez @PParallele usbeketrica.com/fr/article/les…

@bruces fantastic! The final chapter of that book discussed your AI bestiary Bruce (the one you wrote in the Newsweek article few months ago)

“Shoggoth with Smiley Face”: Knowing-how and letting-know by analogy in artificial intelligence research by @ValGoujon et @Optichiasm journals.openedition.org/hybrid/4880

"This study examines cultural responses to the answering machine during the 1970s and 1980s, drawing attention to the following three key themes: the perils of perpetual contact, mediated performances, and social surveillance." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

I moved there a while back / Me suis déplacé ici il y a quelque temps

@ValGoujon @Optichiasm Super thème!

@nicolasnova @Optichiasm Thank you! I love the (sub)title, happy to include it in my chapter about AGI and other mysterious algorithmic entities

Interested in AI and memes? With @Optichiasm, we studied the famous "Shoggoth with Smiley Face" meme to show how the analogy between LLMs and Lovecraftian shoggoths is used in two main ways: knowing-how ("savoir-faire") and letting-know (faire savoir"): journals.openedition.org/hybrid/4880

Work done by James Auger & Jimmy Loiseau