RolandLegrand
rolandlegrand.bsky.social
RolandLegrand
@rolandlegrand.bsky.social
'Actively retired' technology journalist at De Tijd (Brussels, Belgium). Into AI, web3, spatial computing & metaverse, philosophy. Techno-philosophical musings on mixedrealities.com.
Until the bots can nag us about our sloppy prompts the way a copy‑editor can about our texts, AGI remains over the horizon. What we need is meta-reasoning for LLMs. rolandlegrand.github.io/mixedrealiti...
Elusive AGI
Today I experimented with OpenAI’s new reasoning models, o3 and o4‑mini. They can “think” with images, which is both slick and genuinely impressive. But are they dramatically smarter than the earlier ...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Musing about the Big Memory of ChatGPT on my new minimalist blog, invoking Derrida & co. rolandlegrand.github.io/mixedrealiti...
April 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
On the 20th anniversary of Never Let Me Go, the Nobel prize-winning novelist talks about the role of the author in a post-truth world – and why he’s ‘not a great writer of prose’
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March 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Een vol huis gisteren voor de VVJ Academy-workshop over AI en prompting met spreker @rolandlegrand.bsky.social!
Een verslag volgt binnenkort. Houd onze website journalist.be in de gaten! #AI #prompting #journalistiek
February 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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💡VVJ Academy organiseert op 20 februari de workshop 'Aan de slag met prompting en AI-tools', met als spreker @rolandlegrand.bsky.social. Meer info en inschrijvingen 👉https://www.journalist.be/nl/agenda/vvj-academyworkshop-aan-de-slag-met-prompting-en-aitools
January 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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"Communicative #AI" is now listed on Amazon along with an image of the fantastic cover that was developed for us by the design team at @politybooks.bsky.social And if you sense a connection to Plato's myth of Theuth & Thamus from the "Phaedrus," that's what it's all about. @coeckelbergh.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This work got a few updates but, imho, is now in need of a major update to take into account generative ai.
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December 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Dense but inspiring paper and it is in open access!
Really looking forward to reading this new essay from Claudio Celis Bueno and Jernej Markelj. Published #OpenAccess in the "Journal of Posthumanism."
doi.org/10.33182/jop...
December 23, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Long live starter packs. #philosophy
Here is the #history of #philosophy starter pack, part 2.

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November 27, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Artificial beings, such as those of TinyTroupe, are fascinating stuff for philosophers. #philosophy #ai #genai #virtualworlds www.mixedrealities.com/tinytroupes-...
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
So will Bluesky be an X-killer or just find its own niche? #socialmedia #X #distributedmedia
February 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM