By akademiotoelektronik, 29/07/2022

Netflix, my new friend |Le360.ma

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You don't choose your family but you can choose your friends, says the saying.

Well, the saying is wrong.Or rather, it has been deciduous for a few years, since artificial intelligence and algorithms have undertaken to slave the human species in slavery.

Because my new friend, my friend Netflix, I have never chosen him, me.He was the one who invited himself without a life in my life.I think we had already mentioned the subject a few months ago but I have to come back on it because things get worse.

Now my friend Netflix now begins to enlighten me, vulgarly speaking.

Yesterday morning, he picks me at dawn: "Fouad, don't forget to finish watching The Winds!"

I hadn't even had my breakfast yet that a turn signal insisted on me that I had a new message.He was my electronic boyfriend."Don't forget to finish watching The Winds!"

Oh, we calm down.And first of all, why are you tutoring me, Netflix?We did not keep the fleas together.

For the past few weeks “he has confidence», as my feet-free feet in high school said.Now he allows himself to suggest to me strongly, like the sponsor of the godfather, to do this or that.The tone is common, dry, without appeal.

"Since you watched Tartempion in Egypt, you have to discover Macadam in Canada.»

Attention!All this is not innocent.But there are readers, God forgives them, who will defend Uncle Netflix:-Well, what do you have to complain?This is that suggestions, this good Netflix only seeks to simplify your life, it does not eat bread, it is harmless, etc..

Oh, that no.What not!It’s far from harmless.

Let's see how it works.The computer records the choices made by a given subscriber, let's name it Abdelmoula.It allows him to draw up a robot portrait (note this last word) of said Abdelmoula.The algorithm decides when the latter must see such a film, and not another, such a series, etc..

Good.But what prevents the same algorithm from deciding, according to the robot portrait, that Abdelmoula should vote for this or that political party?Writing the program lines that determine this is child's play.Whoever loves animal documentaries must vote green, who loves Delon is a facho, which does not miss any Ken Loach film is clearly left, etc..What is the point of voting?Let the algorithm distribute the seats itself in Parliament.

Do you see the danger?Artificial intelligence thus risks infiltrating the very heart of democratic practice.

Basically, artificial intelligence calls into question our free will.Now free will, this is what differentiates us from animals, which work in instinct.

On cite parfois en latin –‘amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas’– cette réflexion d’Aristote: “Platon est mon ami mais la vérité m’est une amie plus chère».On the same model, we should proclaim: "Netflix is my friend but my free will is a more expensive friend!"