From cascading manipulations to incitement to suicide, recent technological advances in artificial intelligence are changing our relationship to the truth, just as they lock us into loneliness. While Italy has just banned ChatGPT, 1,800 professionals around the world are calling for a break. However, stopping research would deprive us of considerable progress in medicine or in the education sector. It seems crucial to put this research in the public square so that it benefits all of humanity.
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Kamikazes, spies or rescuers: drones, key players in the war in Ukraine
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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Drones are playing an increasingly important role in theaters of war, whether in scouting terrain, dropping explosives or destroying critical infrastructure. But these flying machines can also be very useful for helping isolated people.
Kamikaze drones played a very important role in the latest Russian offensive. On October 13, these flying machines indeed struck Makariv, in the kyiv region, but also the Odessa region, causing serious damage to several energy installations.
This asymmetrical weapon also makes it possible, with relatively few means, to reverse a situation. This is the meaning of the United 24 appeal launched by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who wants to equip his country with as many drones as possible. The objective is, among other things, to secure the more than 2,400 kilometers of common border with Russia.
Drones can also be very useful in the event of an emergency by making it possible to anticipate the progression of fires, to check the practicability of a road or even to deliver medical equipment. Mastering this technology becomes an issue of technological sovereignty.
Paris-2024 Olympics: from anti-drone lasers to algorithmic video surveillance, tech plays its games
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
If protection once morest intrusive drones and the fight once morest cyberattacks is indeed one of the priorities of the organizers of the Paris Olympic Games, the National Assembly has just given its agreement to video surveillance which relies on artificial intelligence to protect the competition. While this technology is worrying, it is necessary to multiply safeguards and limit its deployment over time. Explanations.
Takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk: the richest man in the world becomes the most influential
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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Born in South Africa 51 years ago, physics enthusiast Elon Musk adds another string to his bow. After electric vehicles (Tesla), solar energy (SolarCity), modes of transport (Hypeloop) and rockets (Space X), the richest man in the world is becoming its most influential. Until reintegrating on the social network Donald Trump who had been banned from it at the beginning of 2021?
By offering himself Twitter, Elon Musk adds a line to his impressive record of Stakhanovite entrepreneur, with Tesla, for the electric car, SpaceX, for rockets, SolarCity, for solar energy, or The Boring Company, for transport tunnels. The entrepreneur, born 51 years ago in South Africa, and naturalized American following living in Canada, says he wants to fight for a freer speech.
“Freedom of expression is the basis of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the place of a digital village where we discuss issues vital to the future of humanity…Twitter has enormous potential. J ‘I look forward to working with this company and the user community to release it,’ he explained when announcing his desire to acquire last April. Since formalizing its takeover on October 27, it has announced the dismissal of current CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as that of chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde.
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Taking control of Twitter therefore represents a new tool of influence for an entrepreneur who has very broad ideas. Convinced that we live in a simulation, he relies in particular on a publication by professor of philosophy at Oxford Nick Bostrom, according to which extraterrestrial civilizations with advanced technological skills might easily play with our existence.
The thesis, totally counter-intuitive and often considered far-fetched, is taken seriously by some researchers, such as the astrophysicist from the New York Museum of Natural History Neil deGrasse Tyson. The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur also wants to make humanity an interplanetary species to protect it from extinction, and has planned to send 80,000 Earthlings to Mars by 2027. Another idea is to equip the humanity of a microchip to allow the latter to keep control of the artificial intelligence. Subjects without taboos which would benefit from being able to be discussed on Twitter. Very freely.