Artificial intelligence, chatbots and personal assistants: towards an assisted life?

When you go to Facebook, a message suggests "to add" a friend of a friend, because you "like" the same singers.When you place your headphones on your ears, Spotify offers you “Discoveries of the Week” - depending on what you have already listened to.When you want to watch a film, Netflix offers you videos to watch, that match your tastes - an algorithm based on what you have already viewed.When you go home and do not have (too) the courage to seek love on the Internet, Meetic and Tinder algorithms calculate "probabilities of compatibility", and suggest you meet people sharing your passions.When you ask yourself a question, you can talk to your mobile personal assistant - Cortana, Siri, Google Now (soon Google ATssistant) - or your “Intelligent” box, ATlexa of ATmazon Echo or Google Home, which will be responsible for findingThe answer, by going to the web (in fact, on Google or Wikipedia).ATnd when you are hungry, you can ask Google ATssistant (via ATllo), or “M”, the Facebook chatbot, to find a nearby pizzeria.

Des outils pratiques… qui rendent paresseux

ATn army of chatbots, assistants and algorithms are part of our daily life, without our being aware of it.Why trust them?"They have imposed themselves by the force of habit, with the use of Google and Facebook in particular...ATnd then, we must admit that they are very practical, "notes Philippe Vion-Dury, journalist and author of an essay entitled" The new voluntary servitude ".Netflix, Facebook or ATmazon algorithms are very effective: they sort thousands of data, make us personalized suggestions, avoiding us to seek.ATs for personal assistants and chatbots, “they help us perform tasks… with a gadget and wonderful side that appeals”, remarks Philippe Vion-Dury.By dint of using these i.AT.who “facilitate” our life, laziness is making its way. AT l’image des utilisateurs de Google : 80 à 90% d’entre eux s’arrêtent dans leurs recherches à la première page de résultats - car cela leur suffit, qu’ils ont confiance… sans le courage d’aller plus loin.This assisted life is not without risks. ATu-delà des risques de voir ces outils manipulés ou “bugger”, notre passivité est du pain béni pour les géants du Web : 30% des ventes d’ATmazon viennent de son algorithme de recommandation, quand 70% des vidéos de Netflix sont vues après suggestions. Quand vous utilisez Netflix ou ATmazon, “vous vous rendez à une fête, où tout le monde est invité, mais où le service a fait en sorte que ses amis sont les premières personnes que vous rencontrez”, indique Will Oremus, chroniqueur sur Slate.AT quel point rester passif ? Les I.AT, chatbots et algorithmes n’étant pas “open source”, impossible de savoir comment ils fonctionnent : à nous de les suivre, ou plus du tout ! AT moins que le juste milieu ne soit de les utiliser avec un oeil averti, sans se reposer sur eux, mais en restant “actifs”.Keeping control also goes through “retro -engineering” - by “opening the machines”. Mais ça, c’est une autre histoire, dont nous vous parlerons plus tard !AT lire aussi: