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 ...
rolandlegrand.github.io
April 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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...
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
Musing about the Big Memory of ChatGPT on my new minimalist blog, invoking Derrida & co. rolandlegrand.github.io/mixedrealiti...
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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
‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
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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
Een verslag volgt binnenkort. Houd onze website journalist.be in de gaten! #AI #prompting #journalistiek
February 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
Een verslag volgt binnenkort. Houd onze website journalist.be in de gaten! #AI #prompting #journalistiek
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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
💡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
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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
"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
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
This work got a few updates but, imho, is now in need of a major update to take into account generative ai.
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...
doi.org/10.33182/jop...
December 23, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Dense but inspiring paper and it is in open access!
Long live starter packs. #philosophy
Here is the #history of #philosophy starter pack, part 2.
(Please DM me if you'd like to be added or deleted.)
(Please DM me if you'd like to be added or deleted.)
November 27, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Long live starter packs. #philosophy
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
Artificial beings, such as those of TinyTroupe, are fascinating stuff for philosophers. #philosophy #ai #genai #virtualworlds www.mixedrealities.com/tinytroupes-...
February 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM