The figure of the teacher has evolved over the millennia along with various pedagogical methodologies, starting with Socrates’ RMA, which is still surprisingly relevant today. The model that some teachers manage to embody and transmit remains at times decisive throughout the student’s life. Numerous pedagogical practices using digital tools have been tried out in recent…
Homo Extensus: the new forms of human intelligence
An emerging factor of generative AI is multimodality, that is, the ability to create content that is not only text-based, but also images, video, music and other media. Not only that, it should be acknowledged that the quality of this content is often surprising, both in terms of aesthetics and the rate of unpredictability that…
The advent of generative artificial intelligence will develop new art forms using this revolutionary technology, redefining the role of the artist and the positioning of art itself in its relationship with society. AI does not limit its impact to contemporary art, but invests the entire creative industries market: from graphic design to video art, from…
Leonardo’s intelligence is in more ways than one a model for extended intelligence, an emblematic case in which humans have evidently overcome previous cognitive limitations. Leonardo da Vinci’s genius is a universal icon for the vision of Homo Extensus. In the drawings and paintings of the Florentine genius we recognize his incessant research, which spans…
Homo Extensus can and should move beyond the dominant approach of the most popular generative AI models, which risk promoting an uncritical use of AI based on a dangerous monologic and oracular effect. Typically, systems such as ChatGPT or Gemini tend to provide a single answer, which may be perceived by a naive user as…
Philosophers and scientists of the past, including Bernard of Chartres and Newton, used the expression “standing on the shoulders of giants” to point to the use of the knowledge gained from the great thinkers before us as an opportunity to make intellectual progress, going beyond the acquisitions of the past. Human knowledge has become available…
In addition to the now classic machine translation of web pages and texts on social media, there are already AI applications for smartphones that can recognize texts written in different languages and alphabets, such as street signs or restaurant menus, and perform transliteration and translation. New generations of smart glasses are able to listen to…
The advent of organizational Artificial Intelligence, that which can perform the activities of multiple people such as employees of a company or institution suggests an additional dimension of Extended Intelligence. Individual people, or small groups of men, will be able to multiply their skills, roles and professionalism by creating One-Man-Corporations with very high productivity, capable…
Among the cognitive superpowers of Artificial Intelligence is “predictive” functionality. AI models are no longer based only on logical algorithms, but now on statistical and probabilistic factors. Since probability is inherent in the ability to predict “likely” future scenarios, paradoxically, generative AI is less accurate in the trivial answer to questions about history than it…
Dialogue is a fundamental experience in the formulation and construction of the structure of human reasoning, from the earliest vocal exchanges between child and mother to the highest expressions of philosophical dialectics. Carried over time in writing, dialogue has taken on the conceptual forms of Platonic, Aristotelian or Hegelian dialectics, which although extremely differentiated from…
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