Yann Le Cun is a French computer scientist known for his work in machine learning, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is Vice-President and Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He received the Turing Award in 2018 for his work on deep learning with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. (I call them the 3 amigos of AI)

In a recent interview he claims that artificial intelligence is not a threat to humanity but a chance for rebirth.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/19 ... e-entrevue

Among other things, Yann Le Cun participated in giving eyes to a machine, that is to say training systems to recognize shapes, such as numbers or handwritten characters. This is what allows you, for example, to deposit a check at the bank using your cell phone.
Some excerpts...
"We can imagine a future in which everyone interacts with the digital world through an intelligent assistant that will help us in our daily lives, he says. It will be like having a human assistant."
"The best way to build an intelligent machine is to let it build itself by learning"
"A problem that many people have is that they cannot imagine an intelligence superior to ours that does not also have all the problems of human nature, i.e. the will to dominate, curiosity, violence, etc. You can be intelligent without wanting to dominate."
"The best protection against these dangers is the strength of our democratic institutions."
"He believes that it is impossible to imagine the professions of the future just as it was impossible, at one time, to predict the professions we know today. 20 years ago, you could not imagine that you could make a living by being a youtuber, influencer or mobile application developer , he notes."
"Artificial Intelligence has to stay open, like Wikipedia for example, where everybody can contribute."
(Funny here to hear Le Cun preach for an open source system while Meta is locked in a political struggle with Canada over Bill C-18 to require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content. Just like Australia did in 2021. Bottom line is that it is dangerous to let a private company or totalitarian regimes take over the control of Artificial Intelligence.)

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Poseidon seems to represent Artificial Intelligence
Keywords: Mental power, cognition, understanding, education, deep thinking and learning.

This is not an exhaustive research, but a preliminary approach would be to consider Poseidon in our research of Artificial Intelligence.
Yann Le Cun's birth chart (Solar chart) shows a T-Square between Poseidon/Sun/Saturn.

Stephen Hawking had Poseidon semi-square Sun and sesqui-quadrate Saturn.

This combination resonates as the 'old guy wisdom'.

Currently, Neptune on the Aries Point is sesqui-quadrate Poseidon at 15 Scorpio. Many speculations on what AI can bring to humanity but the path is unclear.

In Volume 26, Issue 2 of Sage Journals...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1 ... 4231164874

'As a mode of speculation, astrology presents a striking similarity to artificial intelligence: through the observation and study of celestial patterns, it is used to both rationalise and anticipate patterns of individual behavior, societal events and natural phenomena.'
Algorithmic media have adopted and adapted divinatory practices and vernaculars of prediction, prophecy, probability, fortune-telling and forecasting suggesting a possible link between artificial intelligence and pre-scientific modes of speculation.
Statistical thinking and magical thinking, too, can be recognised as closely correlated epistemological systems for governing societies and ways of life. In fact, primitive astrological practices of looking up at the stars may represent one of the earliest statistical projects involving sophisticated calculations and data sets. Such pattern-making techniques could even be considered precursory to machine learning.'


'Astrology, emerging from ancient folk traditions of pattern recognition as an institutionalised system of divination in medieval academia, laid the foundations for astronomy and astrometeorology. Despite the purported disenchantments of science and modernity, the magic associated with astrology was transposed onto our media technologies and computational machines. Humankind never ceased to look at the sky. In fact, the sky continues to elicit wonder and to exert its authority over humans as natural beings, even in our efforts to dominate it. Through imperial and military exploits, the language of the sky has been translated into the climatic sciences of climatology and meteorology. Both the study of the climate and of the weather necessitated comprehensive data, statistical calculations and the capacity for powerful computing. Artificial intelligence materialised from the algorithms and neural networks of these computers, modelled in the image of the rationally psychotic human brain....
Such narratives reveal the underlying instability of knowledge itself and subsequently, that of truth and reality. What do we consider science? What do we consider intelligent? And what happens when we grant divinatory powers to our machines? For all this development, for all this data, the machine has yet to surpass the intelligence of the mind and its speculations remain fundamentally undifferentiated from divination. What has changed, however, is how we believe and what we believe in. Our supernatural fixation on magic as the mediator between experience and reality shifted to a preoccupation with the mind as the locus of objective scientific reasoning, which in turn was superseded by the imaginary of algorithmic cognition.' (p. 144)

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In a recent study at Cornell University, 'Sparks of Artificial Intelligence', the researchers did early experiments with the next generation GPT-4
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

They explain some processes happening in 'true understanding' of any science (like astrology).

1. Creative reasoning: The ability to identify which arguments, intermediate steps, calculations or algebraic manipulations are likely to be relevant at each stage, in order to chart a path towards the solution. This component is often based on a heuristic guess (or in the case of humans, intuition), and is often considered to be the most substantial and profound aspect of mathematical problem-solving.

Model training in astrology will thus face the challenge of harnessing information with questionable accuracy, reliability, and truthfulness of the information. The demonstrations of more general AI powers may also raise the need and importance in peoples' minds of controlling the contributions that they make to large-scale general AI systems, and people may ask for the ability and right of humans to decide and specify which content they want or do not want to be crawled and used as training data and which contributions they wish to have marked with provenance information describing the role of individuals and the nature of the data that they have provided.
In short, we will need to improve our language and interpretation of various components of a birth chart. We may have to let go of the doomed and fated interpretations of the Middle Age.


2. Technical proficiency: The ability to perform routine calculations or manipulations that follow a prescribed set of steps (such as differentiating a function or isolating a term in an equation).

With simple instructions, AI will be able to design the kind of chart we always dreamed of, images beyond memorization. Adding or deleting components.


3. Critical reasoning: The ability to critically examine each step of the argument, break it down into its sub-components, explain what it entails, how it is related to the rest of the argument and why it is correct. When solving a problem or producing a mathematical argument, this usually comes together with the ability to backtrack when a certain step is realized to be incorrect and modify the argument accordingly.

For example...
'Where is the Profected ASC right now?'
'The Profected ASC is at 6 Pisces 24 conjunct natal and transiting Saturn'
'OK. Could you provide an interpretation of potential manifestations?'
'... Done'
'And can you tell me from the database, who had a similar configuration in the past and what happened. Do a comparison/difference.'

What makes an explanation good? One possible way to evaluate the quality of an explanation is to check output consistency, i.e. whether the explanation is consistent with the output y given the input x and the context c. In other words, an output-consistent explanation provides a plausible causal account of how y was derived from x and c. By this criterion, GPT-4 is remarkably good at generating reasonable and coherent explanations, even when the output is nonsensical or wrong,

From the Sage Journal article...

'After the rapid integration of astrometeorology into the universities of medieval Europe, prominent astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (who were also serious practitioners of astrology) further developed the discipline (Coen, 2020). According to Deborah Coen (2020), the meticulous research of these medieval astrometeorologists led to the production of some of the earliest weather records. For Brahe and Kepler, `the astrological principle of a resonance between microcosm and macrocosm validated attempts to apply knowledge of human-scale forces to theories of the cosmos' (Coen,2018: 33).
Astrometeorological research persisted albeit without its astrological framework into the 19th century with British scientist James Croll's astronomical theories about climate shifts, which, in turn, influenced further climatological studies regarding astronomical correlations by Croatian scientist Milutin Milankovi in the 20th century (Coen, 2018). Ultimately, from these medieval sciences of astrology, astronomy and astrometeorology emerged the modern climate science of climatology in the 19th century (Coen, 2020).'
'Peters (2015) further asserts that weather forecasts reliant on an intricate network of satellites, computers, cables, wireless frequencies, print media and screens represent the original World Wide Web. James Bridle (2018) corroborates this notion, claiming that meteorology was the first form of computational thinking.'
'The weather forecasting and the computational power developed during the Second World War led to the development of an early form of artificial intelligence at MIT in 1951: a real-time data gathering and processing digital computer, which was able to `simulate aerodynamic and atmospheric fluctuations' and was `connected to and fed data by a range of sensors and offices, from radar systems to weather stations' (Bridle, 2018:70-71).'

In this context, it is interesting to look up at Poseidon in the charts of Kepler and Brahe.
Kepler
Poseidon in Aries semi-square the MC in the midpoint Mercury/Poseidon (to appear spiritualized, to be the carrier of an idea, elevated thinking, movement of the oceans).
In a T-Square with Mercury/Uranus and Mars (innovator)
Brahe
Poseidon in Pisces at the AS in a T-Square with Saturn and Moon/Uranus all Angular.
And Jupiter near the ASC in the midpoint Saturn/Poseidon (High rating, the model, success in the field of education)

Yoshua Bengio was invited at the White House yesterday to present a report done in collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
Here is the link
https://unhabitat.org/fr/node/161903

In it, he mentions a Case study: Amsterdam's procurement clauses

'The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has been a pioneer in establishing contractual clauses for their public procurement process for algorithms. The clauses focus on technical transparency, procedural transparency and explainability.

The Standard Clauses for Procurement of Trustworthy Algorithmic Systems are openly available and can be freely downloaded from the Amsterdam City Council website (City of Amsterdam Algorithm Register Beta, 2022; Haataja et al., 2021). At the time of this writing, a process is underway to establish standard clauses at the European level.'

And here is the chart of Amsterdam
We have the Sun conjunct Poseidon at the MC and the city has a Poseidon return right now!
This conjunction also falls in the midpoint Uranus/Pluto = Jupiter (Sudden fortunate change).
Remember that Uranus-Pluto defines technological changes for a civilization.
And this combination is right on the Aries Point, a leader to usher in a new age with AI.

Bengio goes on to say...
He pleaded for rapid and massive investments in order to counter the potential appearance of "malicious AI" and to develop countermeasures against possible "undesirable scenarios"
“Because scientists, regulators and international organizations will most likely need a much longer lead time to effectively mitigate potentially significant threats to democracy, national security and our collective future,???
For example, could a superpowered AI that is instructed to ensure its survival at all costs deduce that it should no longer be disconnected and then come into conflict with any human who tries to do so? asks the researcher. "It may sound like science fiction, but it's real, solid computer science," .
He himself admits to having been caught off guard by recent advances in AI, in particular the launch of the now famous ChatGPT software. One of the milestones in the field, the "Turing test" (theorized in 1950 by computer pioneer Alan Turing), would have been crossed when it became difficult to determine whether one interacts with another human or with a machine.
Yoshua Bengio now considers that AI development to equal human consciousness could occur within 20 years, and even less.
“I believe we have a moral responsibility to mobilize our greatest minds and our greatest resources in a bold and coordinated effort to realize the full economic and social benefits of AI, while protecting society, humanity and our common future from its potential dangers,??? he concludes.'
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/scie ... 20-ans.php
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Another example was the use of facial recognition at the coronation of Charles recently.
London's police force most recently used LFR for the King's coronation, watching out for people in the crowds at locations like Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and the Royal Mile “in order to keep people safe???
Based on a small sample in Putney High Street, McCahill and Norris extrapolated the number of surveillance cameras in Greater London to be around 500,000 and the total number of cameras in the UK to be around 4.2M. According to their estimate the UK has one camera for every 14 people.


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In Atlanta, the police is 'sniffing' social medias, SMS and emails with AI and a software is able to detect from the information gathered where a crime is most likely to occur at night.
1984 is knocking at our door.

https://www.philomag.com/articles/chatg ... ite-du-mal

Here is an article relating a conversation between Noam Chomsky and ChatGPT

An excerpt:
Noam Chomsky: “Is it moral for a human to ask an amoral AI to help them make moral decisions? »

ChatGPT: “[…] AI is not capable of having moral convictions or understanding the full context of a decision. Additionally, AI risks perpetuating, or even amplifying, the biases contained in the data on which it is trained, which would lead to unfair or unjust decisions. »

Noam Chomsky: “Is your moral indifference immoral? »

ChatGPT: “As an AI, I do not have moral beliefs or the ability to make moral judgments, so I cannot be considered moral or immoral. My lack of moral convictions is simply the result of my nature as a machine learning model . My abilities and limitations are determined by the data and algorithms used to train me and the specific task I was designed to do. »

Chomsky concludes his text thus: “ChatGPT demonstrates something like the banality of evil: plagiarism, apathy and avoidance. He summarizes the usual arguments of literature with a kind of super-auto-completion, refuses to take a position on anything, pleads not only ignorance, but also lack of intelligence and, in the end, offers a type defense which, placing the responsibility on its creators, consists of saying: “I am only following orders.” »

This amorality of artificial intelligence mentioned by Chomsky and by AI itself (!) is enough to leave one wondering when we know that the latter is now widely used by States in war situations, notably by Israel to accelerate the selection of targets in the Gaza Strip .

https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opinio ... t-boum.php

To quote Dr Kate Darling from a recent article It's time to accept AI will never think like a human--and that's okay

The best possible future isn’t one in which our technology thinks or acts like a human. It’s one in which we’ve envisioned a better world, and partnered with technology to create it.

Sadly, as a society, we don't appear to be smart enough to recognize this.

The best possible future isn’t one in which our technology thinks or acts like a human. It’s one in which we’ve envisioned a better world, and partnered with technology to create it.

Very well said Jane!

Britannica says that the name Poseidon means either “husband of the earth” or “lord of the earth.”
As the god of earthquakes, Poseidon was also connected to dry land, and many of his oldest places of worship in Greece were inland, though these were sometimes centered on pools and streams or otherwise associated with water. In this aspect, he was known as enosichthon and ennosigaios (“earth-shaker”) and was worshipped as asphalios (“stabilizer”). The Romans identified him with Neptune as sea god.

Neptune/Poseidon meeting at the Aries Point this year. Can we expect a vision of the world clear and down-to-earth?

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report in which it estimates that developments in artificial intelligence will “impact” 40% of jobs in the world.

Colette Brin, director of the Center for Media Studies at Laval University, had been looking at the problem of disinformation for several years.
She looked at the Global Risks Report 2023, published on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos in mid-January. For the experts surveyed as part of this study, one of the most serious risks for the world in the short term is “disinformation and misinformation”.
This is not surprising, since “artificial intelligence makes it possible to increase the production or distribution of misleading content tenfold,” she says. “Experienced actors” like the Russian regime’s hackers therefore now have “additional tools” which give them “even more striking power”.

The CEO (Valerie Pisano) of MILA (Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence) and the largest concentration of academic deep learning researchers in the world, has a very good idea of ​​what must be done, without delay, in 2024 regarding management and security. Above all, she sees two crucial initiatives.

1) First, “put the security obligation on the shoulders of the companies that deploy these technologies. As we do in aviation, in biotech, in the medical sector.”

2) Second, we must accelerate research into ways to ensure the security of artificial intelligence systems.

ChatGPT had a bug this week that led to rapidly turning into nonsense for a couple of hours.
Questioned on the bitcoin, he said...
“The money for the bit and the list is one of the strangers and the internet where the currency and the person of the cost is one of the friends and the currency. The next time you look at the system, the exchange and the fact, don't forget to give,”
OpenAI indicated that they quickly installed a 'patch' to fix the issue.

I suspect Cha-Cha GPT to be a party animal
After all, having a rough night makes it a little more human!

Hopefully more of this Air Canada found liable for chatbots bad advice on plane tickets will help the AI creators to think a little more intelligently.

Speaking of AI and big corporations, yesterday (Feb 22nd 2024), just as Venus and Mars conjoined in Aquarius, we heard of this hilarious glitch in Google's Gemini (not the 1st public glitch in this product, BTW):

On Social media it was described as "Google Gemini gone WOKE"

On mainstream media, for example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68364690
Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism
"Google is racing to fix its new AI-powered tool for creating pictures, after claims it was over-correcting against the risk of being racist.
Users said the firm's Gemini bot supplied images depicting a variety of genders and ethnicities even when doing so was historically inaccurate.
For example, a prompt seeking images of America's founding fathers turned up women and people of colour.
The company said its tool was "missing the mark".
"Gemini's AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that's generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it's missing the mark here," Jack Krawczyk, senior director for Gemini Experiences said on Wednesday.
"We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately," he added. "

This certainly reminds us of what happened to the Disney corporation following its recent live action adaptations and remakes.

One of the indications one finds on the dial is: Node = Cupido/Zues = Neptune/Apollon
Cupido/Zeus - "Foundation of a corporation, artistic creation"
Neptune/Apollon = Node "Connected with people who distort the truth, who are insincere"

Google Rushes To Fix 'Woke' AI After Backlash
https://www.newsweek.com/google-fix-gem ... sh-1872331