Le Devoir invites you to take the byways of university life. A proposition that’s both scholarly and intimate, to be picked up all summer long like a postcard. Today, the season continues with a reflection on artificial intelligence (AI), which is here to stay. We might as well tame it. “The aliens have arrived, but we haven’t noticed because they speak our language. This is how Geoff Hinton, nicknamed the “grandfather of artificial intelligence”, describes the arrival of generative AI systems like ChatGPT. In his view, these systems are aliens, because their way of understanding and acting in the world is fundamentally different from our own, like the heptapod creatures in Denis Villeneuve’s film The Arrival.

But unlike them, we don’t have to hire linguists to learn how to communicate with them: these artificial intelligences have been created to converse with us.. . Source