As a brave new world of ubiquitous AI arrives, an overview of the latest tech advances. Europe is playing catch up in the frantic AI technology race but has an ever-growing number of start-ups specialising in the field. Jonas Andrulis, founder of Aleph Alpha, a company based in Heidelberg in Germany, is looking to generate AI capable of streamlining the work of public bodies. Frenchman Thomas Wolf, co-founder of the Hugging Face platform, favours open source AI that is accessible to all. As for Han Xiao, the founder of Berlin start-up Jina AI, his ambition is to create a generative AI (capable of creating content autonomously) that could outperform ChatGPT.
In the European context, they are struggling to finance their activities and are raising the question of moral responsibility as part of the ongoing debate on the place of AI in society. A number of experts and political players, including Robert Habeck, German Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs, and Max Tegmark, author of La vie 3.0 - Être humain à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle (Dunot, 2018), contribute their insights to this overview of the upheavals caused by AI in our daily lives and attempts to regulate and secure its use.
Dominik Bretsch (Germany, 2024). 89 min.