Tag: IA generativa
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The machine removes our easy answers
Cada vez que una máquina aprende a hacer algo que creíamos nuestro, alguien se apresura a decir que eso, en realidad, nunca fue lo importante. Cuando calcularon mejor que nosotros, dijimos que calcular era mecánico. Cuando ganaron al ajedrez, que el ajedrez era solo cálculo con reglas. Cuando empezaron a escribir párrafos correctos, que redactar…
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Measured and reserved
Las cifras circulan ya con la seguridad de los hechos. Los centros de datos del mundo consumieron unos 415 teravatios-hora en 2024, cerca del 1,5 % de toda la electricidad del planeta, y podrían acercarse a los 945 en 2030. En Estados Unidos fueron 176 teravatios-hora en 2023, un 4,4 % del consumo nacional. Entrenar…
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The criterion is not in the hand
A study from Columbia University, published in June 2025, quantified what many of us had intuited. A group of individuals were shown identical works, some labelled as human-made and others as generated by artificial intelligence. The latter were rated sixty-two per cent lower than...
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Changing skin
We have been convinced for years, and with good reason, that we rely excessively on a handful of American platforms. That the European public discourse occurs within infrastructure designed in California, governed by its laws and refined by algorithms that reward indignation, constitutes a genuine problem of autonomy and democracy. Hence the impulse, increasingly...
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The Empty Sieve
In 1959, a company was founded in New York that sought to accomplish something that then sounded like science fiction: to predict human behaviour using a computer. It was called Simulmatics. It gathered over one hundred thousand interviews from old surveys, divided voters into four hundred and eighty categories, and simulated how each group would react to the issues...
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Three thousand dollars for my book
On 20 July 2026, a federal judge in California granted final approval to the largest settlement to date between authors and an artificial intelligence company: 1.5 billion dollars, approximately three thousand for each book utilised. What was resolved therein is not what is typically reported. It was not determined whether a machine...
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An image without provenance
On 27 January of this year, the British Museum published a series of images on Instagram and Facebook depicting a young woman contemplating pieces within its galleries. The accompanying text invited viewers to pause: observing with composure is always worthwhile. The images were generated using artificial intelligence, and this was not disclosed in...
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Pigments I no longer grind
At university, I learned to manufacture my own paints. I arrived at grinding the pigment on the slab with the muller until the lumps were broken, at incorporating the binder little by little, at noting when the paste had bound. I also learned to prepare my supports: to stretch the canvas, to size it, to apply the primer and to…
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Architecture is not neutral
The debate regarding technological sovereignty is frequently framed incorrectly, as though it consisted of possessing 'European' artificial intelligence models in contrast to American or Chinese counterparts. That is merely the surface. The fundamental question is different: who controls the entire stack upon which everything else relies. Not merely the models, but the...
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The empty chair
On 7 July, The New York Times published a report with a headline that sounds like retribution: the revenge of the philosophy graduates. Artificial intelligence laboratories are hiring philosophers. Not as an ornamental gesture: Google DeepMind and Anthropic each have at least half a dozen, there is a constitution of twenty-three thousand…