Philosophy baccalaureate test: Raphaël Enthoven will face ChatGPT

Man versus machine: how to dominate it without it dominating us? For Éliette Abécassis, this is an essentially philosophical question. It is for this reason that the novelist who has just published Un couple (Grasset) agreed without the slightest hesitation to reconnect with the time when, as a young associate professor of philosophy, she taught this subject at the University of Caen. She will correct the copies of a proof, in the form of a match, which constitutes a first.

On June 14, at 2 p.m., Raphaël Enthoven and artificial intelligence, represented by the ChatGPT application, will work on the subject proposed that morning to baccalaureate candidates. They will have one hour, instead of the four traditionally given to high school students. In order not to give the slightest clue to the jury, their respective texts will then be copied by an anonymous and innocent hand, then transmitted, for corrections, therefore, to the novelist, as well as to Lev Fraenckel, professor at the University of Strasbourg. , and host of a show on YouTube and TikTok.

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The event will take place at the Paris School of Technology

Anxious to make a playful rather than a scientific contribution to all of these reflections, Armand Derhy had the idea of ​​a meeting to which Raphaël Enthoven immediately gave the green light. Always ready to take up a challenge, however original it may be, he has accepted the conditions of the duel: two professors, considered to be experts in artificial intelligence, are currently taking turns to prepare the machine by giving it as much information as possible on the graduating class syllabus and all sorts of hypotheses on the subjects that one is likely to make him deal with. They even teach him to establish a plan, right after the statement of the subject.

Will this accelerated training be enough? Eliette Abécassis is not convinced. She believes that reading a few sentences, perhaps a paragraph or two, will be enough to identify a real difference between the two copies: Raphael Enthoven's should be easily recognizable. She is convinced that there will be found, between the lines, a human analysis, a form of morality, an extra soul. What a machine as sophisticated as it is, will, fortunately, never be able to integrate.