While he had his arm in a sling, Jean-Pierre Gorges, mayor (LR) of Chartres, used the ChatGPT software to write his speech on May 8 and found the result “amazing”.
We knew the use of ChatGPT to pass exams or write essays. We could also ask him to write songs, to decide between Tours and Orléans or to decide whether Mont Blanc was French or Italian. Here is that this prototype of a conversational agent using artificial intelligence specialized in dialogue arrives in politics. Jean-Pierre Gorges, the mayor of Chartres, city of Jean Moulin, used it to write his 78th birthday speech on May 8, 1945.
” With my arm in a sling, to write my May 8 speech, I asked ChatGPT for help, the result is amazing“, he confides on his Facebook page. The city councilor explained his desire to experiment during his May 8 speech, also posted on Facebook.
With my sick arm, it was difficult for me to write. So I started a discussion with a new entity that doesn’t know what flesh or blood is. A soulless mind, an artificial intelligence. Yes, I wrote these few words inviting ChatGPT to pay homage to what she can never be, and to bow her head before those she can never imitate or equal. I asked ChatGPT to pay tribute, on May 8th, to their humanity and their sacrifice.
Jean-Pierre Gorges, Mayor of Chartres
On the program (literally): great historical platitudes worthy of a Wikipedia page (“D-Day is the name given to the landing of Allied forces in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. It was one of the largest military operations in history“), a clear, but rather impersonal style, and a notable taste for repetition.
Victory in Europe marks the end of World War II in Europe. It was celebrated on May 8, 1945, after the surrender of Nazi Germany. This victory ended six years of war in Europe and cost the lives of millions of people. It was a moment of relief for Allied nations, but also a moment of sadness for families who lost loved ones in the war.
ChatGPTMay 8 Speech
“This artificial intelligence repeats itself a bit”concedes the mayor of Chartres. “It’s still a little long, perhaps. But we can read there the respect that I asked him to have for our dead and our fighters.“
So at the end of his speech written by ChatGPT Jean-Pierre Gorges added that “everywhere, with young people as with the old, in the physical world as well as the virtual one, we will carry this duty of memory like a torch. In the City of Jean Moulin, city of the first act of resistance to Nazi barbarism, capital of memory in 2023, together we will always do our duty. Let me therefore add, dear friends, to conclude: Long live the Republic! And long live France!“
In fact, the ChatGPT “conversational agent” is increasingly used in various professional fields, with varying degrees of success. On France 5, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, for example, described as “fascinating“ChatGPT’s ability to write speeches relatively”intelligent, well structuredBetter still, Toulouse researchers have shown that the political programs created by AI are comparable to those developed by human beings.
But if the ability of artificial intelligence to deliver information clearly, within the limits of its knowledge, is no longer to be demonstrated, its ability to “to please and move“still leaves something to be desired.
For example, the YouTuber keen on rhetoric and former lawyer Isabelle Chataignier asked the AI to write the wedding speech of Elisbath Borne and Brad Pitt… with mixed success.
If the example of the mayor of Chartres makes you fear for the credibility of politicians, you have every reason to reassure yourself.
In the best and in the worst of creativity, we are still very far from being equaled, let alone replaced, by robots. At least for now