Wasn’t there better advertising? A few days before the very serious International Summit on AI organized in Paris, a tricolor chatbot hit the headlines for its awkwardness. Developed by the Linagora company in partnership with the CNRS, it could convince you of the benefits of cow’s eggs or miss math operations at CE1 level. The past is essential because Lucie – his name – was disconnected at the end of last week, just three days after its launch. Its designers regretted the putting online of a project still in the “gross” state. For their defense, a chatgpt has gone through the same difficulties as Lucie. And it is always impossible for him to perform simple tasks, such as counting the number of “n” in the word “pineapple”.
But timing, for an AI supported by the France 2030 plan and presented as “faithful to European values”, is disastrous. Especially since the week is marked by the announcement of the Stargate project in the United States, a colossal investment plan with $ 500 billion. And an excitement around the Chinese start-up Deepseek, which puts the country in the great race for artificial intelligence.
The most unfortunate is that this AI associated with a caricatured image of blonde pin-up eclipses the many French successes. De Mistral, titillating the best world companies in the field, in the Bloom project, a public-private alliance which shone. The list is long. Who knows, Lucie will may join her one day. When she is at the point.