In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon analyzes the war of “search” which will change our uses of the Internet, with Frédéric Filloux, great reporter specializing in Tech at L’Express, and Christophe Tricot, expert in artificial intelligence, founder by Laforge AI.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation and writing), Ambre Rosala (editing), Jules Krot (directing) and Marion Galard (work-study).
Credits: Arte, France 2, TF1, TMC, The Verge, Google
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon / Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain / Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: I am looking for an episode of La Loupe which is a little dated and whose title I have forgotten, I must admit. If I enter “Big Tech” and “second half of 2021” I should find it… “The Monster of Facebook”, no, “Cybergeddon”, it’s not that… it’s this one: ” Darwin at the GAFAM”, shelf D, fourth row at the back, on the right.
With more than 400 episodes in our archive cabinet, we had to create an index to find our way around. So a bit like in the library, this catalog gives us the exact location of the episode we are looking for. There, it is therefore shelf D. This episode was devoted to the threats weighing on the giants of Tech. Emmanuel Paquette, from the Economy department, used an expression that will serve us today:
Emmanuel Paquette : “In fact, the specter of IBM is the one that scares everyone. IBM was disrupted by Microsoft. In fact, it was the leader in computers. It did not see the personal PC coming and especially the arrival of Microsoft, which, as an operating system, took over everything. It haunted Silicon Valley for a long time. And today, it’s coming into the culture of Silicon Valley, of all these companies- there who are afraid of the IBM moment.”
Xavier Yvon : “The IBM moment”… In this episode, we explored the fears of GAFAM for their survival – we had lingered in particular on Facebook and its difficulties, but, to tell the truth, not so much on Google. If there was one member of Big Tech that was unconcerned at the time, it was the multinational corporation that has been structuring internet usage for more than 20 years.
Now, for several weeks now, Google has been sensing its “IBM moment”: the emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT and the onslaught of Microsoft are shaking the emperor of search engines… and it is our relationship to the web that could be totally transformed.
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