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By Claude ROCHE, Ingénieur en chef de l’Armement, former Program Director at DGA, former Vice President Major Systems at Matra Défense Espace and full member of AAE
This text had been prepared as an introduction to the first summary of the Académie de l’air et de l’espace symposium on “L’intelligence artificielle, ses applications dans l’aéronautique, la défense et le spatial” held in Paris on November 13 and 14, 2024.
This was the first presentation of the symposium, which explained what AI is formally, and in particular underlined the most important point of AI, that “any system including functions built by AI has a non-zero probability of showing errors with respect to the initial goal of its construction”. This is a property shared with natural intelligence.
By mutual agreement of the Academy’s Steering Committee, we have observed that this introduction, making up half of the summary text, was too long. In fine, this introduction will be adapted to the Academy’s web portal. It may also give further advice to those who want to use AI, or systems built with AI.