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GENÈSE DE L’INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE : ANALYSE DES MOTIVATIONS ET STRATÉGIES ÉDUCATIVES CONTEXTUELLES

© IUDI https://www.iudi.org Montagne de Ldamtsai près de Mokolo, EN Cameroun. Photo prise par le Pr Yalin Xin le 21 juillet 2012 en marge de la pose de la première pierre sur le campus de l’Institut Universitaire de Développement International.

The African academic world cannot bury its head in the sand regarding debates on artificial intelligence. Even intellectuals wary of or categorically opposed to it must understand its true nature and the issues before any rational response. Historically, artificial intelligence has its roots in the first half of the 20th century, a period during which science fiction popularized the concept of an intelligent robot (Anyowa 2017, Crevier 1993, Boden 2018, Nilson 2010, Pickover 2022, Wilson 2022, Wooldridge 2021). However, a more in-depth analysis of the motivations and objectives pursued by artificial intelligence reveals aspects that transcend historical spheres. This article aims precisely at an academic consideration of the genesis of the phenomenon, a sine qua non-condition for laying the foundations for contextual strategies in Africa. Speaking of strategy, it must be noted that it will necessarily be plural due to the African continent’s geographical, linguistic, religious, cultural, and socio-political diversity. Added to this is its youth with its dynamic character and population (projected by certain respectable futurologists as the strongest by 2100).

Strategies will also be contextual because people’s needs vary according to countries, regions, and communities. An approach that is both holistic and pragmatic seems essential. In a systematic and practical approach, this study offers a journey into the past before any reflection on the future. Thus, Africa will need more than just reacting or choosing between several prefabricated approaches. Still, it will chart its path according to its actual needs, priorities, and values ​​that are dear to it after having seriously measured international competition. With this objective in focus, the author begins his communication with the importance and challenges of the subject before defining the key concepts, presenting the methodology, providing a historical overview, and specifying the main motivations and objectives of artificial intelligence, measuring the trajectory of related theories and practices and proposing educational strategies in Africa.

L’univers académique africain ne saurait jouer à la politique d’autruche face aux débats sur l’intelligence artificielle. Même les intellectuels qui s’en méfient ou s’y opposent catégoriquement ont le devoir d’en comprendre la vraie nature et les enjeux avant toute réponse rationnelle.  
Historiquement, l’intelligence artificielle plonge ses racines dans la première moitié du 20e siècle, période pendant laquelle la science-fiction a vulgarisé le concept de robot intelligent (Anyowa 2017, Crevier 1993, Boden 2018, Nilson 2010, Pickover 2022, Wilson 2022, Wooldridge 2021). Toutefois, une analyse plus approfondie des motivations et des objectifs poursuivis par l’intelligence artificielle révèle des aspects qui transcendent les sphères historiques. Cet article vise justement à une considération académique de la genèse du phénomène, condition sine qua non pour poser véritablement les jalons de stratégies contextuelles en Afrique. 
Parlant de stratégies, force est de relever qu’elles seront nécessairement plurielles du fait de la diversité géographique, linguistique, religieuse, culturelle et socio-politique du continent africain. A cela s’ajoute sa jeunesse avec son caractère dynamique et sa population (projetée par certains futurologues respectables comme la plus forte à l’horizon 2100). Elles seront également contextuelles car les besoins des populations varient selon les pays, les régions, voire les communautés. Une approche à la fois holistique et pragmatique semble incontournable.
Dans une démarche à la fois méthodique et  utilitaire, cette étude propose un voyage dans le passé avant toute réflexion sur l’avenir. Ainsi, l’Afrique ne se contentera pas de réagir ou de choisir entre plusieurs approches préfabriquées, mais de tracer sa propre voie en fonction de ses besoins réels, de ses priorités et des valeurs qui lui sont chères, après avoir sérieusement mesuré la compétition internationale. 
Avec cet objectif en point de mire, l’auteur commence sa communication par l’importance et les enjeux du sujet avant de définir les concepts clés, présenter la méthodologie, faire un survol historique, préciser les principales motivations et objectifs de l’intelligence artificielle, mesurer la trajectoire actuelle des théories et pratiques y relatives et, finalement, de proposer des stratégies éducatives en contexte africain.

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https://www.academia.edu/110592811/GENÈSE_DE_LINTELLIGENCE_ARTIFICIELLE_ANALYSE_DES_MOTIVATIONS_ET_STRATÉGIES_ÉDUCATIVES_CONTEXTUELLES_Exposé_présenté_le_1_er_décembre_2023

The Prayer of Habakkuk

  • In what ways COVID-19 has impacted the local economy and even spiritual life negatively?
  • What do we learn from Habakkuk in such challenging times and how do we apply these lessons to our individual and collective lives?
  • Joy must characterize the life of a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. If there is no joy in your daily life, please watch as there is certainly a spiritual leak. Ask yourself these diagnostic questions: Am I complaining often? Do I have the tendency to blame others for almost everything? Do I talk to myself negatively? Do I dwell in my past successes or failures? Do I resist to change? Do I want to please everybody (which by way is am impossible task)? Do I doubt God’s wonderful plan for my life? Do I neglect my Bible study, church attendance, and prayer life? I am hiding to commit sin or life my life like an ungodly person without a respectful fear of God? Am I jealous? Am I envious? Am I afraid of what will happen to me given my current life circumstances? Bring these issues to the Lord in prayer and your will enjoy His peace and joy.
  • Prof. Moussa Bongoyok

CONFINEMENT: UN TEMPS POUR REFLECHIR…

« Considérons cette période comme un temps de grâce pour nous arrêter et regarder dans quelle folie nous avons marché jusqu’ici. Notre vie était devenue une course effrénée, où nous n’avions même plus le temps de réfléchir.
C’est pourquoi, aujourd’hui, je voudrais que nous nous concentrions ensemble sur les choix fondamentaux que nous devrions faire dans notre vie de tous les jours. Premièrement : Réalisons que nous ne pouvons pas mettre notre confiance dans les hommes. Nos représentants politiques, qui nous avaient promis un monde meilleur, n’honorent pas les engagements pour lesquels ils ont été élus, et les prévisions de nos grands spécialistes humains, sont presque tous les jours remises en cause … Si vous voulez approfondir ce sujet je vous conseille de regarder cette vidéo » Jean-Louis Gaillard

« The Best Coronavirus Prevention » with Doug Batchelor and Dr. Neil Nedley

WHO WILL LIVE FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER HAVE HEADS? A shout in the desert of International Community

You didn’t hear… or did you hide willingly under the bed of abstraction?

Maybe you did hear about Boko Haram and other terrorist movements in action…

But, you see, your geography professor told you as did your musician,

With all the calm and seriousness of an academician,

That Kousseri, Maroua, Mora, Tourou, Moskota, Koza, Ouzal, Mozogo,

And other localities or infrahuman countries must go,

Because their humanity index is so low, and,

They are located on an unknown planet, the land of tomorrow.

Why worry about the future

While one calmly drinks today’s culture?

 

Maybe you didn’t see what is happening on social media as your soul became a taro…

Because, above all, you must set your economic priorities right to beat the antihero

And accumulate as much power and things as you can carry in your empty barrow.

Your business professor told you so, with his academic sombrero.

Your financial advisor is such a genius so different from the harrow

That you gather things, things and more things, and the great dinero.

You eat power, power and more power over bones without a marrow.

Aren’t they mere keys to your success today and tomorrow?

Your eyes can’t see while you dream to be the next pharaoh

And, after all, your neighbor is just a dried arrow!

 

Who will cry for those who no longer have heads?

Who will become a shelter for those who no longer have beds?

Who will eat for those who can no longer smell the odor of fresh breads?

Who will bring joyous colors to lives painted in multiple reds?

Who will tell Europe, America, Asia and others, that Boko Haram spreads

Faster and deeper than the swiftest fighters and meds?

Who will act? Who will dig? Who will lovingly address the roots

Instead of relying solely on boots?

 

Oh! I wish you and I were the recovered triumphant shouts of the voiceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the beautiful tears of the tearless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the real wealth of the resourceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the reconstructed ramparts of the powerless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the regained smiles of the hopeless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the lost but found face of the faceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the living image of the divine rock for the baseless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the real value of lives so priceless!

Regardless of our religious backgrounds, we are all humans;

Would you and I actively navigate against the currents and stop treating others as subhumans?

 

Moussa Bongoyok, PhD

Professor of Intercultural Studies and Holistic Development

President of Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI)

Les cris de douleur d’un peuple en détresse suite aux exactions meurtrières de Boko Haram

 

Lamentations d’un jeune Mafa de Moskota condamné à l’exil dans des conditions infrahumaines suite aux exactions meurtrières de la secte islamiste Boko Haram contre les populations du Mayo Tsanaga dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun.
Lamentations of a young Mafa from Moskota condemned to live in exile, and in infrahuman conditions, following the murderous killings of the Islamist sect Boko Haram against the populations of Mayo Tsanaga in the Far North of Cameroon.

Nourrir le peuple de Dieu – Pr Abel Ndjerareou

 

Musique du terroir