Kindrobot : Who ? Why ? How ?
The main part of this article was written in 2017. 6 years after a lot has changed but many important questions remain on the table.
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Artificial intelligence does become an important topic and everyone's business.
When we hear about enthusiastic reactions from technical, marketing and financial parts of the society, we have a great idea of the growing buzz around the subject.
Our phones, computers, cars, hospitals already use these technologies.
Things are going fast.
The technological revolution has begun. Impacts will appear everywhere in our lives within 10 years.
Many personal "thinking" assistant will pop up in our living rooms. Chatbots, image recognition, speech recognition.
More and more data will be collected, analyzed to feed the models.
Data that we provide everyday and which is sometimes used without our clear consent.
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[2023 Update]
The rise of Large Language Models begins to shape our link with creatitivy, reality, efficiency.
Even our relation to work is challenged by those new tools.
Has this recent rise helped in creating and promoting clarity and transparency? How inclusive or even helpful is AI today?
For example, OpenAI switched from a open source approach to an aggressive commercial one to annihilate concurrency.
In the meantime, we seem to forget (or some of us let us forget on purpose) that the very roots of AI come from the open source world through research, universities, and massively public data.
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