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Publish at March 08 2023 Updated March 08 2023
How artificial intelligences are transforming us
The new world of intellectual assistants and that of pedagogy
The effects of artificial intelligences on individuals, societies and our human species. It is as if Chatgpt reveals our "pedagogical debt", i.e. the delay we have allowed to accumulate to integrate the best pedagogical practices less based on a reproduction of the world.
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