The ChatGPT robot “is only an approximate parrot”, estimated on Monday the Minister Delegate for Digital Jean-Noël Barrot, and announced to aim at “the training of 400,000 digital experts by 2030” so that France “does not pass by this new wave “artificial intelligence.
Digital companies must be able to “hire under the best conditions,” added the minister on Franceinfo, while Emmanuel Macron received the leaders of the French technology sector at the Elysée on Monday afternoon.
“We must act”
Asked about the conversational AIs that have electrified the sector for two months, he judged that “at this point ChatGPT is just an approximate parrot that sometimes clumsily restores the astronomical sums of information it has collected on the Internet. Ask him who won” . the last FIFA World Cup and you won’t be disappointed, because it will answer to France”, he joked. ChatGPT was trained on data ending in 2021 and therefore cannot provide recent information.
Asked about the possible risks of this tool, he pointed out that “AI saves lives”, for example with previous medical diagnoses, but it presents “risks of discrimination, manipulation and dehumanization” and that “that is why we must act”.
AI soon at school?
To master these technologies, France is bringing to the EU level the future regulation on AI regarding the responsibility of designers, who must denounce any drift towards discrimination, he recalled.
He also wanted schools, instead of banning it, to be able to use ChatGPT “as a demonstrator of what an AI can and can’t do.”
But “OpenAI (the designer of ChatGPT) would have done better to wait for filters” to detect the use of its software “before publishing it,” he lamented.
Source: BFM TV
