Metadata

• Id: EU.AI4T.O1.M2.2.1v
• Title: 2.2.1 Video: What is Artificial Intelligence?
• Type: video
• Description: Introduction of video Who is afraid of AI?
• Subject: Artificial Intelligence for and by Teachers
• Authors:
  • AI4T
  • Mooc "Intelligence Artificielle...avec Intelligence"
• Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
• Date: 2022-11-15

Video: What is Artificial Intelligence?

This video deals with what the biological intelligence is so it is possible to define AI with its symbolic and numerical approaches. It points out that all the artificial intelligences we encounter in real life are just technical and dedicated to specific tasks! Its approach is general and it can be used in the classroom.

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Synopsis

The main character Guillaume lists the many applications or tools that use algorithms and highlights their place in our daily lives. He starts by questioning computers and computer science which leads him to ask the question: "Have our computers become intelligent or not?". Guillaume then turns his interest to biological intelligence, whose functioning allows him to ask questions about the "real intelligence" of AI and its different approaches: symbolic, digital... The conclusion of the video is that all the artificial intelligences we encounter in everyday life are restricted to specific tasks, far from the representations we can have in movies or in fiction!