Society

Pascal Couchepin's reading: «L'homme augmenté» (Augmented man)»

By Pascal Couchepin · 01 May 2024

Le dernier essai de Raphaël Gaillard, «L’Homme augmenté», offre une approche sérieuse de l’IA, reconnaissant à la fois ses risques et ses opportunités.

Philosophy

Etienne Klein: «Short-circuits, an antidote to repetition».»

By Aude Robert-Tissot · 10 April 2024

Physicist and philosopher of science Etienne Klein is in Fribourg to present his latest essay «Courts-circuits». At the crossroads of personal narrative and intellectual spark, he invites us to share his reflections as he makes disciplines talk to each other.

Economy

AI and employment, all affected by the revolution

By Erwann Tison · March 11, 2024

Since the Industrial Revolution, less-skilled jobs have been replaced by machines, while other sectors have been created. With artificial intelligence, white-collar jobs are also under threat. Here's how to prevent unemployment from exploding.

Media

Media transformation under the influence of digital technology

By Max Frei · October 26, 2023

Digitization has had a major impact on the journalistic sector. Between changing practices and economic challenges, the last ten years have seen the media shrink in the face of new competitors.

Society

Ralph Müller's cartridge: ChatGPT and human dignity

By Ralph Müller · 23 June 2023

Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. Youtuber Ralph Müller, a doctoral student in literature at the University of Geneva, delivers his scathing analysis of a typical contemporary phenomenon.

Society

The challenges posed by new AIs are not totally new

By Yves Di Cristino · 02 June 2023

L’intelligence artificielle inquiète au plus haut niveau. Or, ces nouvelles technologies ne nous portent pas vers des menaces complètement nouvelles. Et si les risques de dérive sont loin d’être nuls, il nous reste plusieurs garde-fous pour prévenir ces abus.

Society

No, ChatGPT isn't smart!

By Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard · March 30, 2023

ChatGPT software doesn't analyze or synthesize, nor is it creative, but generates «a credible follow-up to a given text». The result can then be adorned with the trappings of human intelligence. This is enough to arouse fears and anxieties.

Films

«A.I. Artificial Intelligence», on the verge of tears

By Eugène Praz · 20 January 2021

Spielberg's formal purity

Literature

«A machine like me», between humor and artificial intelligence

By Loris S. Musumeci · July 21, 2020

McEwan, Orwell's son