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The near civilization of Japanese robots
It's all about making robots more friendly, and also making us more open to their presence; the enterprise of robotic inculturation has begun, and is spreading across the board. Asimo is well known, but what can we say about Geminoid F, a real human avatar, Pepper, who goes to a real high school, Aiko Chihira, who knows sign language, Hanako, a typical patient for a dentist, Tipron, the home projector robot and even Hal, who offers human-robot hybridization...
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Knowledge as a public good to be seized
The data accumulated by the large Web operators has a significant value and effect on the organization and social fabric. ChatGPT is just one manifestation of the potential for social transformation that these innovations can induce. The knowledge developed by humanity can be considered as a common good and it is not because an organization has the means to concentrate and analyze it that it ceases to be a common good.
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Meet Q, the voice of the 3rd sex
Can we really leave these clichés behind, namely the particularly stubborn one of this helpful, reassuring and trusting hostess? Here, it is no longer simply a question of digital or technological prowess, but of reworking our preconceptions.Q proposes an egalitarian voice, without discrimination, a non-gendered voice...
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Can "virtual eloquence" replace eloquence?
The Covid 19 pandemic has strongly affected the organization of eloquence contests, hence the birth of what could be called virtual eloquence. Despite the prowess of digital technology, can eloquence be done without the audience, which is the very target of the speakers?
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Artificial Intelligence in a frenzy - Try more than hundreds of public applications
Biology, human sciences, physics, chemistry, politics, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, it becomes possible for us to find and create relationships that are beyond human capacities, either in terms of time of realization, capacity of observation, memorization or simply of persistence of attention. Here are some recent applications of A.I., to make us dream or worry.
