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Concrete example: from high-tech AI to low-tech paperboard
DATA
+
algorithm
Dr d'Acremont
(dispensaries in Tanzania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni-I_AXepSs
Initial position
very sick children
no qualified MD
high mortality rates
Modelling the world: Limits to Growth...
1900
1925
1950
1975
2000
2025
2050
2075
2100
Resources
Population
food/inhabitant
Pollution
goods & services
/inhabitant
historical data
predictions
Chaîne de conséquences
Goods/services
Pollution
Resources used to
fight against pollution
Scenario 0
"Business as usual"
Goods/services
food production
population collapse
Meadows, D., & Randers, J. (2012). The limits to growth: the 30-year update. Routledge.
Instauring low-techs and
destauring high-techs ?
durable
(compatible with the environment)
accessible
(reparable, easy to use, open to all)
useful
(answers a need)
Solar-powered low-tech website
(
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
)
Computerless informatics & AI.
Minimalistic digital for resilience.
Inventing the future: creativity, collective intelligence & narratives
Baptiste Morizot, "Manières d'être vivant"
Inventing the future: introduction to ecopsychology and anthropology
knowledge
compassion
Dealing with eco-anxiety
Philippe Descola, "Par-delà Nature et Culture."
What is a low-tech?
Lowtechnicising digital & AI
... versus the Growth of AI
Modern Era
First Era
Petaflop/s-days
1e+4
1e+2
1e+0
1e-2
1e-4
1e-6
1e-10
1e-12
1e-14
1e-8
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
2-year doubling (Moore's law)
3.4-month
doubling
High-tech
=
"zombie" technology
digital in the world tomorrow
the future of AI
beyond digital...
Creativity workshop
Romain COUILLET
,
Univ. Grenoble-Alps
romain.couillet@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Redefine, dimension
,
engage
and rebuild.
Embodying the shift
: digital in the age of lowtechs
Incarner la transition
: le numérique à l'âge des lowtechs
From IPCC (2011), +2°C quota =
1000
GtCO
2
Today, the world produces
40
GtCO
2
/year
40
<1000
Redefine, dimension
,
engage
and rebuild.
animism
adjusted consideration
robustness, repairability
performance
environment
level of independence
of end-user to the tool
resource availability
power of action
of the end-user
including energy
preservation, and
danger of
non-resilience
accessibility to society
0
20
40
60
80
100
Deep-learning based
Lowtech paper-based
solution on tablet
decision tree
Intermediary position
low mortality rate
tablets:
unusable without energy
rare metals extracted from
mines by other children
Program
:
·Introduction: why and how to dismantle AI?
·Serious Game: living the Earth dynamics (x2)
·Serious Game: "Fresque du Numérique"
·Thumb the World: orders of magnitudes
·The LowTech "revolution"
·Become a lowtech engineer "Les ateliers du LowTech Lab"
·Ecopsychology and ecoanxiety
·"Arpentage" of Tools for Conviviality
·Ontologies, axiology, actionnable futures
·Open session
naturalism
direct violent
et violenteaction
Final position
low mortality rate
decision tree
usable without energy
more intuitive, supported
by algorithm interpretation
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