Technology. High mass 2.0 in Palestra Monday November 25. A promise made to the “anti-digital” in all sauces, the menu is broader: in the hard part of artificial intelligence, we first have the concrete, then Darwin, Spinoza, biochemistry, ethics and the future of workers or that of humanity, quite simply.
A successful Digital day Monday November 25 in Palestra. This day, dedicated to the understanding and appropriation of new technologies linked to artificial intelligence, offered various workshops to demystify, understand and master artificial intelligence in the service of the economy. A real tool for organization, synthesis, communication through images or writing, AI proves to be devilishly effective as well as voracious in personal information. This is where vigilance is required, and the message went through well with the fifty or so entrepreneurs present. Artificial intelligence works, or even makes decisions for you, but feeds on personal or even confidential information, and knows no boundaries. The teams from the CCI Meuse Haute-Marne master their subject and extol the merits of AI, its “incredible range of possibilities”, without forgetting to discuss in detail the basic precautions to take. “It remains a tool, you have to be careful what you do with it, like when you are behind the wheel. It's up to us to keep control of the machine. It is an innovation, like electricity or the sewing machine. No one believed in it, no one can live without it anymore. You have to live with the times, but be careful,” says Cécile Mounier, digital transformation project manager at the CCI.
Creativity, emotion, consciousness
Place the speaker Stéphane Mallard, who imposes AI as a Darwinism, that is to say a life which grows alongside ours, but which evolves much more quickly. A natural continuation of life, which continually improves through trial and error, retaining only what works. What doesn't work dies, and so on. By collecting and filtering data all over the world, AI's knowledge is exponential and prides itself on imitating our cognitive system. All the concepts of life in machines. As with Darwin's theory, a series of algorithms obsessed with configuring themselves as best as possible to constantly surpass themselves. Today, AI does better in terms of diagnosis than doctors and builds pleadings that are more convincing than those of the most experienced lawyers. “Emotions are survival programs, like fear which makes people flee or “love” which pushes for the survival of the species. Consciousness is also an algorithm, a space of repetition which improves the results of our decision-making,” affirms Stéphane Mallard.
An Einstein in your pocket
The AI analyzes words, facial expressions or voice. Sight, language, sound therefore give way to digital art and artificial symphonies. “Soon, in a single system that will replace laptops, smartphones and other tablets, we will all have in our pocket an assistant, a butler, who knows us better than ourselves, to anticipate everything, with other millions networked of connected experts. Customized on everything, an Einstein in your pocket.” Bankers will disappear, lawyers will struggle to charge full price in the face of an AI that does better, the marketing director will have to worry… And what about the so-called “small hands” professions? “This is the beginning of the end of human labor. Machines to make our lives easier, a mature civilization.” The public did not fail to react, and brilliantly. To invoke free will, of Spinoza or Descartes, the progressive decline of fully assisted man, or the very usefulness of having life and experience in the face of an artificial and universal synthesis of good processes… A question remains: what will we become? “Adapt or disappear”, announces the CCI with a logo representing a dinosaur.
Elise Sylvester
AI, for work or just for fun
Free everyday tools for professionals or everyday life? Some advice given by Cécile Mounier of the CCI and caught on the fly for those who want to get started. To generate images in your image, there are Canva, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney and among others! Lack of inspiration for product descriptions, summaries, congratulations to collaborators or love letters? ChatGPT, Not Diamond or Claude take care of it. Thanks to Capcut, we create videos with captions and comments. Gemini records your meetings and provides true-to-life minutes, capable of detecting an atmosphere of conflict even if it is not clearly expressed.
