The Minister Delegate for Digital, Jean-Noël Barrot. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
Jean-Noël Barrot wants schools to be able to use this conversational tool “as a demonstrator of what an AI can and cannot do», rather than prohibit it.
The ChatGPT bot “is only a rough parrot“, Estimated Monday the Minister Delegate for Digital Jean-Noël Barrot, announcing to aim”the training of 400,000 digital experts by 2030“so that France”don’t miss this new waveof artificial intelligence. Digital companies must be able torecruit under the best conditions“, added the minister on FranceInfo, while Emmanuel Macron receives Monday afternoon at the Élysée the leaders of the French Tech sector.
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Asked about the conversational AIs that have been electrifying the sector for two months, he judged that “at this stage ChatGPT is only an approximate parrot which sometimes restores a little awkwardly the astronomical sums of information which it has compiled on the Internet. Ask him who won the last football World Cup and you won’t be disappointed, because he will answer you France“, he quipped. 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 earlier medical diagnoses, but presents “risks of discrimination, manipulation and dehumanization” and “so we have to act“. To master these technologies, France is bringing to EU level the future regulation on AI concerning the responsibility of designers, who will have to report any drift towards discrimination, he recalled.
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He also wanted schools, rather than banning it, to be able to use ChatGPT “as a demonstrator of what an AI can and cannot do“. But “OpenAI (the designer of ChatGPT) would have done better to wait to have filters“allowing to detect the use of its software”before publishing it“, he regretted.
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