A little hello and a big goodbye. French chatbot Lucy became the target of such ridicule on social networks that its publisher decided to shut it down. But why did you launch Lucy when she clearly isn’t fast?
Her name is Lucy, she is an AI. Made in France.but he hasn’t.the windthe wind very clever. The AI is having trouble counting, it claims, the eggs cowcow There are and screenshots illustrating his fake or incorrect answers are now plentiful Social networksSocial networks.
Just launched, the chatbot has been such a topic. AvalancheAvalanche Ironic that Lucy has just been fired by her editor. Objectively, it’s clear that it doesn’t really shine with its performance. It’s surprising when we know the power of French AI chatbot Mistral, which has little to envy its American competitors. The problem is that Lucie comes from a public investment plan focused on French competitiveness. The AI is managed by the Linagora company and the CNRS and it is precisely this that houses the effects of the joke that is the subject.
A misunderstanding?
However, on paper, the plan seems well-intentioned. It was developed with the OpenLLM-France community and is based on a challenge. TransparencyTransparency Total, specifically on the means used to train AI. A start that allows us to better understand the mechanisms of artificial intelligence, its moderation constraints… In other words, it’s a tool with an educational purpose.
In its defense, Linagora points out that the chatbot is not a fully-fledged AI, nor a DemonstratorDemonstratorbut a project under development. This excuse does not excuse the fact that the public is offered this rickety chatbot. A bad idea, with predictable results. Unless, of course, the developers ask Lucy if she feels ready to face the public… In any case, as of Saturday, Lucy has been locked up. If the goal was to get people talking about the project, it was successful, but perhaps not in the way Linagora and CNRS had hoped.