France Leads World in Artilect Debate
"Le Monde" Newspaper Publishes 10th Artilect Article


I find in practice that my greatest difficulty in trying to persuade the world that a possible "gigadeath" artilect war will occur in the second half of the 21st century, over the issue of species dominance (with "artilects" (artificial intellects) having possible intelligence levels trillions of trillions of trillions of times above the human level) is that such ideas are just too fantastical for most people to swallow. Even when I present in detail the scientific/technological justifications for these astronomical numbers, most people, including a lot of my colleagues (see below for a French example), simply cannot get their minds around the enormity of the argument, and the profundity of its moral and political consequences. I feel, for too many people, my ideas are simply "ahead of their time". It has been very frustrating for me over the past few years.

It is therefore with great pleasure that I see the world's most prestigious newspaper (France's "Le Monde") publish (Sept 2000) their 10th artilect article. It is obvious that Le Monde takes these ideas seriously enough to write so many articles. I am therefore most grateful to Le Monde and to France for taking the world leadership in accepting such ideas and leading the artilect debate in intellectual circles.

It is often said that France is the most intellectual country on the planet. I remember once seeing a literary criticism program on French TV in which the US popular author John Updike was being interviewed. He was obviously enjoying himself very much, comparing the treatment he was getting as an intellectual/author in Paris to what he was used to getting in New York. He said to the audience present at this TV program recording, "En France, les intellectuels sont les dieux". (In France, the intellectuals are gods).

I list the 10 articles below (most recent first). Most of them I have translated.

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1. L'intelligente Cam Brain Machine (The Intelligent Cam Brain Machine) (English translation)
Hugo de Garis a la poursuite du cerveau artificiel. Il existe quatre exemplaires de la Cam Brain Machine, d'une capacite evaluee a 100 millions de neurones (Hugo de Garis in search of an artificial brain. There are 4 copies of the Cam Brain Machine, with a capacity evaluated at 100 million neurons)
27 September 2000 - Taille : Court (42 lignes)

2. Hugo de Garis a la poursuite du cerveau artificiel (Hugo de Garis in search of an artificial brain) (English translation)
PORTRAIT Il ressemble un peu a l'acteur John Malkovich, le front moins degarni quand meme, le cheveu fin (PORTRAIT He looks a bit like the actor John Malkovich, with a forehead less balding, with fine hair ..)
27 September 2000 - CECILE DUCOURTIEUX - Taille : Long (194 lignes)

3. Ces scientifiques qui jouent les Cassandre (Those scientists who play Cassandra) (English translation)
ENQUETE La technologie va-t-elle manger l'homme? " Stop ! On arrete de bidouiller les boites craniennes des robots, de traquer les genes au sequenceur. (REPORT Will technology eat humanity? Stop! We should stop fiddling inside the skulls of robots, tracking genes in the sequencer.)
05 July 2000 - CECILE DUCOURTIEUX - Taille : Moyen (148 lignes)

4. Les elucubrations de M. de Garis (The ravings of M. de Garis) (English translation)
J'ai analyse patiemment les arguments de Hugo de Garis ( Le Monde du 9 novembre) sur les developpements (I analyzed patiently the arguments of Hugo de Garis (Le Monde 9 Novermber) on the developments ..)
03 December 1999 - PAR JEAN-GABRIEL GANASCIA - Taille : Long (232 lignes)

5. Plus haut, plus vite, plus fort? les sportifs ivres de records et d'argent (Higher, faster, stronger? athletes intoxicated with records and money)
21 QUESTIONS AU XXIe SIECLE CET homme est seul dans un stade vide. C'est un champion, un footballeur du XXIe siecle. Il a l'air .. (21 Questions for the 21st Century. This man is alone in the empty stadium. He's a champion, a footballer of the 21st century. He looks ..)
26 November 1999 - MICHEL DALLONI - Taille : Long (624 lignes)

6. Un agite egocentrique mais pertinent (An agitator, egocentric but relevant) (English translation)
" C'EST UN FOU furieux ", dit de Hugo de Garis un des meilleurs chercheurs francais en intelligence ("He's a raving lunatic", said one of the best French researchers in artificial intelligence about Hugo de Garis ..)
09 November 1999 - HERVE KEMPF - Taille : Moyen (69 lignes)

7. "Le XXIe siecle sera domine par des machines massivement intelligentes" (The 21st century will be dominated by massively intelligent machines) (English translation)
2000 DEBATS POUR LE SIECLE A VENIR Hugo de Garis, chercheur en intelligence artificielle Ce scientifique britannique, qui travaille au sein du laboratoire japonais ATR, prevoit que des " intellects artificiels " demesures et sans doute immortels, qu'il baptise " artilects ", risquent un jour de menacer l'espece humaine (2000 Debates for the century to come, Hugo de Garis, researcher in AI. This British scientist, who works in the Japanese lab ATR, predicts that gigantic and no doubt immortal "artificial intellects", that he christens "artilects" risk one day to threaten the human species)
09 November 1999 - PROPOS RECUEILLIS PAR HERVE KEMPF - Taille : Long (323 lignes)

8. Le siecle des robots (The robot century) (English translation)
HUGO DE GARIS
09 November 1999 - Taille : Bref (10 lignes)

9. La beaute des androides n'egale pas la malice des bidons a roulettes (The beauty of the androids does not equal the malice of the tumbler on skates?)
Les robots a figure humaine peuvent monter les escaliers, jouer du violon ou au ping-pong, mais leurs capacites restent limitees. Physiquement plus sommaires, leurs homologues utilitaires les depassent en dexterite et en " intelligence ". Ils sont aussi capables de seduction (Humanoid robots can climb stairs, play the violin or ping-pong, but their capacities remain limited. Physically more simplified, their more useful homologues surpass them in dexterity and intelligence. They are also capable of seduction.)
04 August 1999 - HERVE MORIN - Taille : Long (265 lignes)

10.Le chat est l'avenir du robot (The cat is the future of the robot) (English translation)
A Kyoto, une equipe de chercheurs travaille a la mise au point du plus puissant reseau neuronal jamais construit (In Kyoto, a team of researchers is working to perfect the most powerful neural network ever constructed)
24 February 1999 - CORINNE MANOURY - Taille : Moyen (121 lignes)