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SUMMARY\n > The Presans Raout 2017 now has a confirmed venue, speakers, and a theme.\n > The theme, \"Artificial Intelligence and the Smart City,\u201d is the culmination of a long series of meditations on the world of open organizations.\n > The \u201cPresans method\u201d facilitates a fresh, unconventional perspective on this theme.\n > First presentation of Albert Ass\u00e9raf<\/a> and Aur\u00e9lien Bellanger<\/a>, our two principal speakers.<\/pre>\nArtificial Intelligences<\/h3>\n
It seems the adjectives \u201csmart\u201d and \u201cintelligent\u201d began their migration toward the world of technological artifacts through the military territory occupied by bombs. Today, the word is applied to objects from telephones to vehicles, and even to processes like economic development (smart growth<\/em>).<\/p>\n
All of these usages have one trait in common: they show that intelligence is no longer the sole province of human beings. Objects are becoming artificial agents: they\u2019re decision-making machines, armed at once with sensors, connections to a network of other intelligent machines, algorithms, and possible actions. Typical actions include: categorizing data, allowing or refusing access, activating or not activating a system.<\/p>\n
The thinker Guillaume Paoli, whom we have already discussed in our analysis of transhumanism, joked that if certain totalitarian and depressing prospects for the future didn\u2019t upset people, it was no doubt because people were getting stupider, and in any event more apathetic than the machines.<\/p>\n
The quip could be read as a kind of skepticism toward the progress-obsessed virtues claimed by the intelligence networks\u2019 new class of social engineers. Would\u00a0this allow us\u00a0to\u00a0refuse the great technophile narrative of the singularity? We will leave this question open. What is certain is that the construction or emergence of intelligent machines that will significantly surpass current human capabilities in the coming decades is the core preoccupation of our most brilliant minds. The irreplaceable Elon Musk recently declared that, if a Third World War should erupt, the race for artificial intelligence would be the most likely trigger:<\/p>\n
\nChina, Russia, soon all countries w strong computer science. Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo.<\/p>\n
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n