Science at UM [S04-ep06]: Generative AI for fracture
This week on A l’UM la science, Florence Rodhain and Saloua Zgoulli, researchers at the MRMlaboratory , talk to us about generative artificial intelligence in higher education. The report takes us to the physics and metallurgy store with Thierry Martiré. Finally, we end with a presentation of the Cabine de curiosité exhibition.A program co-produced and broadcast onDivergence radio every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
In November 2022, the American company OpenAI launched its first large language model. That may not mean anything to you, but you are familiar with it under another name: ChatGPT. In just three months, this generative artificial intelligence system had attracted more than 100 million users. Just one year after its release to the general public, more than half of French people, according to Ipsos, said they knew and understood ChatGPT, with this percentage rising to more than 70% among those under 35 and more than 80% among executives. Among them, 40% said they used it at least once a week. So what is ChatGPT used for? To help write notes, letters, and research proposals, to generate images, and if you have children, you may have already caught one of them in the act of digital slavery.
In short, ChatGPT didn't take long to make a name for itself. But with fame comes controversy, and the controversy is as intense as the hype. In January 2023, New York City authorities banned ChatGPT in schools, followed shortly thereafter by Sciences Po Paris. In Italy, the local data protection authority quickly criticized the chatbot for not complying with the GDPR. The city of Montpellier also banned its use by its employees and contractors on the grounds of protecting data confidentiality.
So, are we going to work with or despite AI? That's the question that researchers at Montpellier Research in Management, including Florence Rodhain and Salloua Zgoulli, asked themselves along with Bernard Fallery when faced with what they call a "tsunami." At the beginning of 2023, they launched a Delphi study, which we will come back to later, on generative artificial intelligence systems in higher education: controversial risks and contradictory scenarios. And as you will see, it emerges that this AI is not only generative of text or images, but also of division.
This program is part of the publication of the new LUM magazine, issue 22 entitled Portraits of AI, which can be viewed on the UM website and is available free of charge at numerous distribution points throughout the city, including Radio Divergence, of course, and on campus.
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In the second part of the program, the report takes us to the Triolet campus to visit the physics and metallurgy store with its director, Thierry Martiré. Here, materials are cut into logs, plates, and tubes; they are milled, welded, sanded, and you can also find every type of screw and bolt imaginable.
Finally, this week we're telling you about a unique exhibition. It's on the Quai Maillol in Sète and it's taking place on a sailboat. Cabine de curiosité (Cabinet of Curiosities ) is the name of the exhibition, which invites you to climb aboard the Compass for a journey through time and space to discover the history of science: geology, zoology, botany, mineralogy, etc.
At UM Science, you have the program, so let's get started!
Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Reporting and editing: Aline Périault
Production: Tom Chevalier
Listen to the program “A l’UM la science” on Divergence FM 93.9
