jean-louis Amat, phd 🇪🇺
@jlamat.bsky.social
Let's talk #science, technology, #industry, #innovation... also SF & cinema
Started working on #AI in 1984 - PhD @IBM France
Digital & AI Expert @ France 2030 digital college
Member CSIF (Industrial #Startup support)
Member Hub France #IA
Started working on #AI in 1984 - PhD @IBM France
Digital & AI Expert @ France 2030 digital college
Member CSIF (Industrial #Startup support)
Member Hub France #IA
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#DataCenters need efficient ways to keep cool. Corintis, a Swiss company, is developing microfluidics for cooling, where liquid is channeled directly to specific parts of a chip. It’s three times as efficient as existing cooling methods.
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#DataCenters need efficient ways to keep cool. Corintis, a Swiss company, is developing microfluidics for cooling, where liquid is channeled directly to specific parts of a chip. It’s three times as efficient as existing cooling methods.
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
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“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
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What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
What makes something data?
This is a question I posted on BlueSky on Friday 11/21/25, inspired by a talk I recently attended about evaluation of “AI” systems. I think…
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
It's easy to be writing with generative #AI... but there are some limits
girardin.medium.com/writing-with...
girardin.medium.com/writing-with...
Writing with Probabilistic Machines
My practice of writing to think in the era of Generative AI
girardin.medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's easy to be writing with generative #AI... but there are some limits
girardin.medium.com/writing-with...
girardin.medium.com/writing-with...
Should we trust the announcements from the generative AI leaders ? They claim what suits well their strategy...
www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
BREAKING: MIT JUST PUBLISHED A STUDY BEING USED TO CLAIM AI IS COMING FOR YOUR JOB
But Anthropic paid for the study and the results are exactly what Anthropic wants us to think
(At least they don...
BREAKING: MIT JUST PUBLISHED A STUDY BEING USED TO CLAIM AI IS COMING FOR YOUR JOB
But Anthropic paid for the study and the results are exactly what Anthropic wants us to think
(At least they don't ...
www.linkedin.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Should we trust the announcements from the generative AI leaders ? They claim what suits well their strategy...
www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
Is it time for reason ?
"We are no longer in the age of scaling, we are back to the age of research"...
We could have prevented such massive waste of money with more reason.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion... #AI #LLM @garymarcus.bsky.social
"We are no longer in the age of scaling, we are back to the age of research"...
We could have prevented such massive waste of money with more reason.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion... #AI #LLM @garymarcus.bsky.social
A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
garymarcus.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Is it time for reason ?
"We are no longer in the age of scaling, we are back to the age of research"...
We could have prevented such massive waste of money with more reason.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion... #AI #LLM @garymarcus.bsky.social
"We are no longer in the age of scaling, we are back to the age of research"...
We could have prevented such massive waste of money with more reason.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion... #AI #LLM @garymarcus.bsky.social
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#3Dprinting was supposed to dramatically reduce the price of prosthetic limbs, but reality didn’t live up to the #hype. Why not? spectrum.ieee.org/how-3d-print...
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#3Dprinting was supposed to dramatically reduce the price of prosthetic limbs, but reality didn’t live up to the #hype. Why not? spectrum.ieee.org/how-3d-print...
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« L’énergie solaire permet de visiter. Le nucléaire permet de construire. »
La NASA poursuit toujours officiellement un plan visant à construire un réacteur nucléaire sur la Lune d’ici une décennie.
Mais plus facile à dire qu'à faire...
Intéressant billet à lire ici : issues.org/space-nuclea...
La NASA poursuit toujours officiellement un plan visant à construire un réacteur nucléaire sur la Lune d’ici une décennie.
Mais plus facile à dire qu'à faire...
Intéressant billet à lire ici : issues.org/space-nuclea...
A Strategy for Building Space Nuclear Systems That Fly
Bhavya Lal and Roger M. Myers assess what it will take for NASA to design, build, and deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030.
issues.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
« L’énergie solaire permet de visiter. Le nucléaire permet de construire. »
La NASA poursuit toujours officiellement un plan visant à construire un réacteur nucléaire sur la Lune d’ici une décennie.
Mais plus facile à dire qu'à faire...
Intéressant billet à lire ici : issues.org/space-nuclea...
La NASA poursuit toujours officiellement un plan visant à construire un réacteur nucléaire sur la Lune d’ici une décennie.
Mais plus facile à dire qu'à faire...
Intéressant billet à lire ici : issues.org/space-nuclea...
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
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The most thorough reporting I’ve seen on how Chat GPT is affecting some people’s mental health, (and what the company is doing about it). Great work from @kashhill.bsky.social and @Jen Valentino www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The most thorough reporting I’ve seen on how Chat GPT is affecting some people’s mental health, (and what the company is doing about it). Great work from @kashhill.bsky.social and @Jen Valentino www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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Hillary Clinton said with Trump’s ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize. He wins the Neville Chamberlain Award for betraying peace, freedom and justice.
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hillary Clinton said with Trump’s ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize. He wins the Neville Chamberlain Award for betraying peace, freedom and justice.
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Are these micro-electronic devices the key to #AR glasses?
Spectrum Editor Glenn Zorpette tried on a new kind of audio driver to see how companies could make lightweight AR glasses that have clear audio. He was impressed!
Spectrum Editor Glenn Zorpette tried on a new kind of audio driver to see how companies could make lightweight AR glasses that have clear audio. He was impressed!
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Are these micro-electronic devices the key to #AR glasses?
Spectrum Editor Glenn Zorpette tried on a new kind of audio driver to see how companies could make lightweight AR glasses that have clear audio. He was impressed!
Spectrum Editor Glenn Zorpette tried on a new kind of audio driver to see how companies could make lightweight AR glasses that have clear audio. He was impressed!
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Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
arstechnica.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
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Can you read an analog clock? Then you’re still doing better than large language models. #AI models still struggle to read clocks, which points to other issues with their image analysis abilities.
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Can you read an analog clock? Then you’re still doing better than large language models. #AI models still struggle to read clocks, which points to other issues with their image analysis abilities.
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
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Anyone using chatbots for education needs to stop now.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Anyone using chatbots for education needs to stop now.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
The brand, which evokes nostalgia and pride, hit its €5m fundraising target within hours and orders have soared
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
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"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful"
Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots.
@iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social
www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...
@iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social
www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...
Department of Justice chatbots mislead people seeking information
Irish Department of Justice internalises the AI hype and takes no responsibility for misleading chatbots.
www.iccl.ie
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful"
Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
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#Entreprises | Constituer des stocks de matières premières et diversifier ses fournisseurs sont deux stratégies qui semblent substituables : les entreprises importatrices françaises qui sont diversifiées sur leur approvisionnement stockent peu, et inversement.
👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
#Entreprises | Constituer des stocks de matières premières et diversifier ses fournisseurs sont deux stratégies qui semblent substituables : les entreprises importatrices françaises qui sont diversifiées sur leur approvisionnement stockent peu, et inversement.
👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
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