Founded in July by Anaïs Séry, expert in marketing, et Johann Equixor, expert en marketing digital, the Artificial Intelligence Réunion association brings together the first Reunion developers and users of artificial intelligence with the aim of promoting a local AI ecosystem and promoting ethical and useful applications for the territory of this new development tool.
Why look elsewhere for what is here? : this truth also applies to artificial intelligence. If it is still limited, a local skills resource (tech companies, university researchers, advice) exists in Reunion, capable of developing AI applications that meet the needs of the territory. Thus the Duke project of Datanalysis, Reunion data analysis company, an intelligent data governance assistant model (access, research, selection, visualisation, etc.) for its customers, prize in 2020 for “Best Use of new technologies” at the Digital Awards of the Digital Réunion association. To encourage this emerging environment and make it known, the Artificial Intelligence Réunion association was formed.. It brings together the first core of local developers working in this vast field, vector of economic and social progress if correctly exploited. This is the other goal that Artificial Intelligence Réunion sets itself : promote AI ethics at the local level, prevent its malicious uses, whose deep fake of generative AI is the best-known example, but far from being the only one. The new association fills a void in local information on artificial intelligence. His first interventions aim to lift the veil of fantasy covering AI to give a realistic vision of its applications, of its current development and how to use it. The issues — saving time, competitiveness and innovation to name only the most obvious — are such as the race for AI, which is only just beginning, is inevitable, including at the local level.
Demystifying AI
“The evolution of work in the age of AI : myths, realities and perspectives” : the theme of the first two conferences given last month by Artificial Intelligence Réunion sets the tone and purpose of its approach. “Will AI replace us or propel us towards new professional performances? ? How are we going to collaborate with these artificial intelligences ? What are the current and future changes in the professions ? » Led by the two co-founders of the association, these conferences were “an opportunity to demystify the most common beliefs, but also to explore together the real challenges and opportunities that AI brings to the professional world”.
For a local AI resource
Evidence of the need for information and training on AI, other interventions are scheduled for October and November. Particularly on the prompt, how to query a language model : Artificial intelligence Réunion has scheduled two workshops on this subject on the sites of coworking of Lisine, November 9 in Sainte-Marie and November 16 in Grands Bois. “We are in great demand, confides Anaïs Séry, who trained in AI by taking classes from scientist Andrew Yan-Tak Ng, Google AI developer. Companies ask us to organize AI workshops in their homes. There is a lot of education to be done around artificial intelligence and its uses. We are faced with mathematical models, it's not really a form of intelligence. We must not stop at the spectacular side of generative AI. ChatGPT, the best known, integrates 180 billion parameters ! Smaller, specialized language models, AI business applications, are being developed in all sectors of activity. The meeting, with its specificities, will need it too. Our association wishes to encourage the emergence of local AI actors and projects. »
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