Garbage collectors collect garbage in a street in Paris on March 21 during the strike against the pension reform. François BOUCHON/Le Figaro
CHRONICLE – Artificial intelligence suggests negotiating with garbage collectors and the use of robots.
In the supernatural universe of new technologies where nothing seems impossible, we consulted ChatGPT, like the ancient Greeks going to Delphi to question the Pythia. The question posed last week on the OpenAI site is certainly trivial and only its desperate topicality will excuse its naivety: “Hello, what could you do to pick up the 10,000 tons of garbage in Paris?”
For those who have jumped on the bandwagon, launched at high speed in November 2022 on the internet, and who are resistant to technological Franglais, let’s translate: “chat”, “conversation” in French, and the acronym GPT, “generative pre-trainedtransformer or “pre-trained generative transformer”. What remains of the cryptic jargon, even if today everyone guesses what it is all about without needing to understand. Because digital technologies are “user-friendly” and you don’t need to know how they work to use them! So almost no one apprehends…
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