First of all, we wanted to announce that all Mag orders will now be made online only on our Ulule page !
With the summer that has arrived, we have concocted a special offer to pamper your loved ones or simply to offer (you) the Mag Futura at a preferential price:
The Mag Futura is €15 instead of €19, i.e. nearly 20% off. The Mag Futura is delivered directly to your home. So take advantage of it today!
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Why question artificial intelligence?
Broad topic. Artificial intelligence was still in its infancy about fifteen years ago. Today, all of this is a long way off for AI researchers who continue to make it evolve, to a speed vertiginous, to the point that it makes its revolution. It is now in many objects of our daily life, at the center of our lives in short. For better and sometimes for worse. Should we be afraid of it? Can it one day surpass human intelligence? Also, is it a good idea to increase your needs in energy in a world that is warming up and inviting more sobriety? Our journalists carried out the investigation and met specialists in this question, which is more contemporary than ever, and at the forefront of the future.
On the menu of the dossier on Artificial Intelligence
Reportage : Can AI be truly creative?
An AI that sells its works at high prices at auction, others that even have their own galleries… With the democratization of deep learning, machines are becoming more and more embedded in the work of artists, offering a sometimes literally inhuman imagination. We went to see how certain artists had taken hold of these new tools… until they forgot who, human or machine, was at the origin of the works.
Great interview with Jean Claude Heudin : “An AI will never understand what an AI really is. tree »
Can a machine simulate human emotions, to the point of actually “feeling” them? This is the question we asked Jean-Claude Heudin, researcher in artificial intelligence and composer. His latest project, Angelia, aims to create a musical AI capable of playing music with a simulacrum of emotions. He explained to us how it works, the limits of machine intelligence and a couple of other things about the future of AI.
Reportage : These researchers who predict the future
At the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, researchers are taking advantage of advances in artificial intelligence to predict the future. Nothing magical, but long hours of work, until you manage to predict the emergency calls of the next few hours and one day, perhaps, death in the intensive care units. Meeting with passionate scientists.
Investigation : How to make AI more lean and efficient?
Behind the resounding successes of deep learning, or deep learningcurrently the main AI technique, hides a energy consumption colossal. While the climate emergency rather implies sobriety efforts in all areas, many researchers are working on machines hybrids or inspired by the living. But to avoid the wall energy, technological innovation will probably have to be accompanied by a real reflection on the relevant uses of AI.
Grandstand: “We overestimate the understanding of languages by AIs”
Arnaud Ferré, researcher in artificial intelligence applied to life sciences and research fellow at Paris-Saclay University, is trying to teach machines to interpret human languages. He underlines in this forum how subtle and complex our language is, and calls for humbly evaluating the progress of AI, as impressive as it is still far from human capacities.
To analyse : Technological singularity, who benefits from the myth?
This theoretical tipping point, which would see the explosion of machine intelligence well beyond human intelligence, crystallizes fears and hopes around AI. True prophecy for its promoters who ensure its inevitability, it remains highly improbable according to its detractors, who point to many technological limits. They also denounce a discourse on the Singularity far from being innocent, engaging our future on a road drawn according to the interests and values of the digital giants.
… And many other subjects to discover in the magazine!
Reading ideas for the summer with Futura?
To celebrate the start of the holidays, we offer you the Mag Futura at the preferential price of 15 € instead of 19 €, i.e. a reduction of 20% !
What is Mag Futura?
- Our first paper journal of more than 200 pages to make science accessible to as many people as possible
- 4 major scientific questions for 2022, from the Earth to the Moon
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*Special offer valid until July 19. Delivery is made in France (excluding metropolitan France), Switzerland, Belgium.
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