The director of the Viva Technology show was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Saturday June 17, 2023.
“It’s as if you were receiving Lady Gaga and the Beatles at the same time”, assured Saturday, June 17 on franceinfo the general manager of Vivatech, François Bitouzet, the day after the arrival of Elon Musk in front of 3,600 fans gathered in Paris. The arrival of the global tech star at the 2023 VivaTech show is “something extraordinary”, he insisted. For two hours at the Dôme de Paris, the controversial billionaire, boss of Tesla and SpaceX, distilled his advice for success to the leaders of French start-ups or to future fascinated entrepreneurs, multiplying the ovations. For François Bitouzet, it was quite simply “awesome”THE “Dôme de Paris was a real cauldron” where reigned a “form of hysteria”.
“He is someone who knows how to share his passion”related the one who considers it as “a tech and digital icon”. “He talked a lot about Twitter, a lot also talked about creating innovation around chips to be integrated into the brain. It was an absolutely incredible moment”, continued the boss of VivaTech.
Artificial intelligence: “When there is a revolution, you also have to be able to manage it”
If Elon Musk did not say a word about the possible establishment of a Tesla factory in France after his meeting with Emmanuel Macron at midday, he announced that he wanted to provide a first human being with neural implants in 2023. his company Neuralink. In the medium term, the objective is to help people who are paralyzed, suffering from spinal cord injuries or who suffer from neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease. In the long term, the earthy owner of Twitter intends to create a symbiotic relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, which could blur the lines between human thought and computing.
During his two-hour show, Elon Musk also defended a Twitter free of all censorship and felt that artificial intelligence risked triggering a “apocalypse” for Humanity. “I find that extremely reassuring”said François Bitouzet. “To say that, when there is a revolution, you also have to be able to frame it, I think that is something quite normal and necessary”he added.
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