The best startup is actually in Saint Germain, Paris

Staying in Paris for the week, Umbert had the chance to take back.

Having some coffees at one of his favorite places, the Café De Flore, he saw many people watching social networks or videos on their phone, all the time, even walking or in couples (each of them on their smart-phone).

Umbert loves technology, but also human interactions.

“When the heart is in alignment with the sun, there is nothing more beautiful,” Christian Bobin, poet.

Our times are very passionate, with a tech revolution taking step by step all that people used to.

And people don’t like change.

This adversity goes everywhere, through human interactions, behaviors, politic, friendship or at work.

Sometimes with excess, with the « I Love It » or « I hate it » state of mind.

Today? What should we do?

Umbert was walking through Saint-Germain Des Prés in Paris and saw this charming shop called Grim’art.

Grim’art

It remembers him the old times in France, and all the French culture and history.

It seems very touristic, but helped him questioning about What should we do?

So he started to compare the tech world to the artistic vibe that he feels in Saint Germain.

The tech world & The artistic vibe in Saint Germain

Checking his phone (he does as well), he saw this article from Le Monde (a famous French newspaper): « These people do not exist: welcome to the era of « fake faces », sorry this is in French, but I’m sure you understand that it is about the software StyleGAN creating fake people.

« Should this exist? », the podcast, Caterina Fake, startup founder.

As Daniel C. Dennett, the Austin B. Fletcher professor of philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, says in his article “WILL AI ACHIEVE CONSCIOUSNESS? WRONG QUESTION” in Wired:

The danger is the influence that these technologies can have on our decision-making processes.

Why not give the legislator the power to sanction companies that abuse it?

Already the media and other social networks mainly influence us because they manipulate us unconsciously, sometimes pushing some to death (example: false news, destruction of reputation).

In any case, the morality of bot, robots and AI is already in doubt.