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There had to be a philosopher and a scientist in our list of newcomers. They are there, the two Raphaëls, who are interested in Artificial Intelligence, each in their own field: the philosopher and essayist R. Enthoven publishes The artificial Mind. A machine will never be a philosopher (L’Observatoire), in which he asserts that “in philosophy, AI is useless”. In short, humanity remains a headache for the machine. The psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher R. Gaillard shows, in Augmented Man. Future of our brains (Grasset) that this new intelligence, “born by imitating our brain, has every reason to hybridize with our own intelligence. The challenge will not be to rThere had to be a philosopher and a scientist in our list of newcomers. They are there, the two Raphaëls, who are interested in Artificial Intelligence, each in their own field: the philosopher and essayist R. Enthoven publishes The artificial Mind. A machine will never be a philosopher (L’Observatoire), in which he asserts that “in philosophy, AI is useless”. In short, humanity remains a headache for the machine. The psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher R. Gaillard shows, in Augmented Man. Future of our brains (Grasset) that this new intelligence, “born by imitating our brain, has every reason to hybridize with our own intelligence. The challenge will not be one nor two. While he participated on February 7 in the feasts (very light for him) of the 2023 bestsellers lunch organized by L’Express, his new book Zero constraints to stay young. There is no age to start! 35 tips to live better and longer (Flammarion), published the same day, was sold out in bookstores. Previous, Zero constraints to lose weight: above all, don’t go on a diet! 39 tips for losing weight has sold like hot cakes, counting some 85,000 copies since February 2023. To believe that Jimmy Mohamed, the co-host with Marina d’Encausse of the Health magazineon France 5, unfortunately doomed to disappear, and creator of videos followed by thousands of fans has become the favorite doctor of the French.

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He is not a doctor, but a judge. Édouard Durand directed the work of the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children (Ciivise) for three years before being removed from office last December. He says today in his “Tract” at Gallimard that the mechanisms of denial are still at work in society while 160,000 children are sexually abused each year in France…. “The words of the victims must be heard without ulterior motive; this is where it all begins, the first non-negotiable gesture of child protection. Today we could not avoid it without creating immense unease. “, he insists in 160,000 children. Sexual violence and social denial which, barely published, enters our list.

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They are an academician and former Minister of Agriculture. In Nourish without devastating. A Brief Summary of Globalization (Volume VIII) (Flammarion), Erik Orsenna and Julien Denormandie attempt to answer some essential and burning questions: How to reconcile agriculture and environmental challenges? How to deal with often contradictory issues? What is happening elsewhere, in Europe, in China, in Brazil, in Egypt, in Ukraine?…. Interviewed on numerous channels and in the written press, they propelled their four-handed book released on February 7 into our list.

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There had to be a philosopher and a scientist in our list of newcomers. They are there, the two Raphaëls, who are interested in Artificial Intelligence, each in their own field: the philosopher and essayist R. Enthoven publishes The artificial Mind. A machine will never be a philosopher (L’Observatoire, 21st in the ranking), in which he asserts that “in philosophy, AI is useless”. In short, humanity remains a headache for the machine. The psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher R. Gaillard shows, in Augmented Man. Future of our brains (Grasset) that this new intelligence, “born by imitating our brain, has every reason to hybridize with our own intelligence. The challenge will not be to compete with AI but to succeed in this hybridization.”

Finally, a politician popped up in our list of essays, and it’s not that common. In this case it is François Ruffin (with two f’s, not to be confused with Jean-Christophe Rufin, a subscriber to the fiction list). The deputy Rebellious France denounces poor French work, exposes its various costs and castigates the elites who have formed “a pact against work for forty years”. His book, Poor work. The choice of the elitesis published by The links that liberate.

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