This blog is about biomimetics and information systems: how does one exploit the properties of emergence and adaptability of "live" systems to "grow" a new breed of information systems that are autonomous, resilient and adaptive to their environments.
The last six months have been very busy on the Artificial Intelligence front. The National Academy of Technologies of France ( NATF ) has just issued a short position paper to discuss some of the aspects of LLM (large language models) and conversational agents such as ChatGPT. Although much has happened very recently, reading the yearly report from Stanford, the 2023 AI index report , is a good way to reflect on the constant stream of AI innovations. While some fields show stabilization of the achieved perf
It is really interesting to compare this “2023 AI Index Report” with the previous edition of 2022 . In a previous post last year , the importance of transformers / attention-based training was already visible, but the yet-to-come explosive success of really large LLMs coupled with reinforcement learning was nowhere in sight. In a similar way, it is interesting to re-read the synthesis of “ Architects of Intelligence – The Truth about AI from the People Building It ”, since the bulk of this summary still sta