Fantasia
Creators: Laura Sibony
Artificial intelligence. It combats fraud and destroys jobs, promotes education and encourages cheating, provides access to knowledge and spreads fake news. It obsesses and frightens us, but what is it really? Through a series of anecdotes, little-known episodes, tales, and micro-stories, Laura Sibony takes stock of the situation. She recounts the main concepts of AI, its challenges, and its consequences without passing judgment. Instead of relying on theoretical discourse, she uses dozens of stories to help us better understand what artificial intelligence is—and what it isn’t. What it can change—and what it will never be able to change. What it promises—and the promises it won’t be able to keep. A chess match between Napoleon and the Mechanical Turk, an algorithm to recognize cheeses, the artificial voices of patients with Charcot’s disease, or even Putin in a low-cut top: machine learning, deepfakes, and tagging are best understood through images. Far from limiting herself to technical aspects, Laura Sibony takes us behind the scenes in Silicon Valley and transports us to Kenya, to the “garbage collectors” of AI. Fantasia features essays that are as funny as they are educational, a journey to understand the object of our deepest fantasies and fears: artificial intelligence.
Call number : C.5.6/SIBO/FANT