How do you keep up with AI?

Dans sa chronique, l’ancien conseiller fédéral Pascal Couchepin partage une lecture qui l’a marqué. Ce mois-ci, il explore l’intelligence artificielle à travers l'essai de Marcel Salathé.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is invading the public sphere. How can we keep our bearings? Marcel Salathé helps us to make up our minds in a readable essay, translated from German and informed by the science of the researcher who is co-director of the AI Center at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The author states with conviction – and perhaps a little temerity: «It's no exaggeration to say that AI is the most important invention in the history of mankind.»

La notion même d’intelligence artificielle apparaît en 1955 dan