The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence, and especially tools like ChatGPT, has thrown the academic world into the heart of fiery controversy. This technology, capable of generating text, translating languages and answering questions with remarkable sophistication, is drawing mixed reactions about its potential impact on education. On the one hand, some educators fear a threat…
Google has been working on integrating a conversational assistant into its search engine for more than a year. The idea of this future functionality is simple: for the company it is about adapting to changes in usage since the launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 and using artificial intelligence (AI) to better respond…
IThere is no longer a discourse on innovation, digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) that does not make ‘people’ the cornerstone of its raison d’être. The “human-oriented” vision turns technology into an instrument that serves technology. Including the report “AI: Our Ambition for France” presented to the President of the Republic on March 13 by…
OWe know how much artificial intelligence (AI) creates fears, fantasies or promises, with significant consequences for employment, but even more so for the work and well-being of employees. The design and implementation choices of these emerging technologies in organizations too often respond to a ‘technosolutionist’ logic, which is part of a deterministic and performative paradigm….
The cashless world that Amazon dreams of is disappearing: the company is returning to its technology that allows it to identify items purchased by supermarket customers before they leave the store: called “Just Walk Out”, it will no longer be available in the future will be deployed to Amazon Fresh convenience stores and will even…
With 90,000 employees in Morocco and over 20,000 in Tunisia, call centers in the Maghreb are on the front lines of the employment battle that comes with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Since the early 2000s, the former has focused heavily on outsourcing customer relations, one of the main sectors creating net jobs in…
Climate impact studies of artificial intelligence (AI) often assess the weight of their design – an electricity-intensive “training” – rather than the weight of their use. This is precisely the ambition of a study published on November 28, 2023 to determine the carbon footprint of AI once it leaves the laboratories. Researchers from Hugging Face…
Pascal Rogard, general director of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers at the SACD building, in Paris, March 27, 2024. ERIC GARAULT / PASCOANDCO FOR “THE WORLD” Undisputed defender of culture – he fought in particular for the imposition of cultural exceptions in Brussels – Pascal Rogard, general director of the Society of Dramatic…
Teleperformance has never earned as much money as it will in 2023: more than 8 billion euros in turnover and an operating result of 1.3 billion. However, as he took the stage in London on March 7 before an audience of financiers, Daniel Julien, the president and co-CEO of the world’s largest customer relations company,…
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 28, 2023. NOAH BERGER / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP OOn this side of the Atlantic, we often wonder why Europe fails to create digital champions comparable to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. The answer is known. It is…