A l'UM la science [S04-ep06]: Generative fracture AI

A l'UM la science [S04-ep06]: Generative fracture AI

[Podcast] - Published on October 24, 2024in Science-Society

This week in A l'UM la science, Florence Rodhain and Saloua Zgoulli, researchers at the MRMlaboratory, talk about generative artificial intelligence in higher education. The report takes us to the physics and metallurgy store with Thierry Martiré. Finally, we close with a presentation of the Cabine de curiosité exhibition.A program co-produced and broadcast on radio Divergence every Wednesday at 6pm.

In November 2022, the American company OpenAI launched its first major language model. You may not be familiar with it, but you know it by another name: ChatGPT. In just three months, this Siag generative artificial intelligence system had more than 100 million users. Just one year after it was made available to the general public, more than half of French people, according to Ipsos, said they knew and understood ChatGPT, a percentage rising to over 70% among the under-35s and over 80% among executives. Of these, 40% said they used it at least once a week. So what do people use ChatGPT for? To help write notes, letters, research projects, generate images, and if you have children, maybe you've already caught one of them in the act of digital slavery.

In short, it didn't take ChatGPT long to find its place in the sun. But where there's sun, there's also shade, and the controversy has matched the hype. As early as January 2023, the New York City Department of Education banned ChatGPT from schools, soon to be followed by Sciences Po Paris. In Italy, the local CNIL was quick to criticize the chatbot for failing to comply with the RGPD. Montpellier town hall has also banned its use by its agents and service providers on the grounds of protecting the confidentiality of its data.

So, are we going to work with or in spite of AI? This is the question that researchers at Montpellier Research in Management, including Florence Rodhain and Salloua Zgoulli, have been asking themselves, along with Bernard Fallery, in the face of what they call a "tsunami". At the start of 2023, they launched a Delphi study on generative artificial intelligence systems in higher education: controversial risks and contradictory scenarios. And, as you will see, this AI is not only generative of text or images, but also of fracture.

This program is part of the publication of the new LUM magazine, issue 22, entitled portraits d'IA, which can be consulted on the UM website and is available free of charge from numerous distribution outlets in the city, including Divergence radio, of course, and on campus.

In the second half of the program, the report takes us to the Triolet campus to visit the physics and metallurgy store with its manager, Thierry Martiré. Here, logs, plates and tubes are cut, milled, welded and sanded, as well as all possible screws and bolts.

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Finally, this week we're talking about an original exhibition. It's on the Quai Maillol in Sète and it takes place on a sailboat. Cabine de Curiosité (Cabin of Curiosity ) invites you to climb aboard the Compass for a voyage through time and space, discovering the history of science: geology, zoology, botany, mineralogy and more.

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