“Get busy, Quebec! AI is at your fingertips. There are p’tits guys in the Bellevue rank, in Saint-Robert, who developed this”, immediately launches the man who has spent the last few years traveling across Switzerland meeting the management of the Higher vocational training schools to offer training on AI to teachers and students.
Roger is the “ statement » by Marc Gagnon. The latter was inspired by his brother Clément Gagnon, who is the founder of sawmill.ca, a website specializing in advice and services for lumber, sawmills and forestry.
With his colloquial language tinged with a Quebec accent, Roger is a virtual advisor hosted on ChatGPT. He embodies an accessible and friendly expert, who is able to provide practical and technical advice to people who work with wood, whether felling, cutting, processing, etc.
Roger is nourished by a rich corpus of works, which make him a true genius of the wood industry and forestry. Just like her brother Clément, the friendly AI has her own interests. “Because Clément likes hunting, cocktails and cooking, Roger likes that too. There are 1,500 cocktail recipes in Roger and three old French-Canadian recipe books,” mentions Marc Gagnon with a laugh.
A first semantic AI
Marc Gagnon claims that Roger de sawerie.ca is the first semantic artificial intelligence robot. “He is nourished by books. He makes connections between concepts in books. With that, he makes an amalgam. It is therefore based on meaning and not on lexicography,” explains Robertois.
Mr. Gagnon’s innovation is the semantic aspect of his project. “That is to say, it is based on meaning. It’s like you’re reading [un auteur]and that I asked you to summarize the book for me. You will not copy the words, you will summarize the meaning of the message for me. Roger, he not only reads words, but he captures the meaning, nuances and intention behind the questions. So it’s semantic programming and no one has done that,” he explains in detail.
“I use the vector capability of the tool, ChatGPT, to create a series of vectors that give a character. So I use the tool for the tool’s sake,” adds Mr. Gagnon.
To create Roger, Marc Gagnon spent the last summer working on AI and semantics. “Through Roger, we demonstrate that even a small firm of two people, lumberjacks, is capable of using AI in an intelligent and humorous way,” concludes Marc Gagnon enthusiastically.
