The essay AI explained to humans is not an encyclopedia nor a series of definitions, but a discussion whose interest is to show that AI is far from being reduced to ChatGPT.
At the beginning of April 2023, at the request of a French teacher, the artificial intelligence specialist and columnist for Science and Future Jean-Gabriel Ganascia receives four third-year students who are preparing to cover artificial intelligence (AI) in their college newspaper. The book AI explained to humans transcribes these exchanges, structured around the middle school students’ questions.
A discussion
The content is far from basic, quite the contrary. In order to clarify the notion of AI, to eliminate shortcuts or misunderstandings, the researcher goes very far in the precision of the subject, whether it is a question of evoking the autonomous car, the Web, the formula ” neural network” or intelligence in short.
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For their part, the adolescents came with questions that were often ambiguous, showing the extent of their upstream research: AI and diagnosis, AI and musical creation, fallibility of AI, etc. This essay is not an encyclopedia nor a series of definitions, but a discussion whose interest is to show that AI is far from being reduced to ChatGPT.
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AI explained to humansJean-Gabriel Ganascia, Seoil, 168 pp., €13.50
