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In this video, the first part of an 8-part course intended for students of the various masters at HES-SO (Switzerland), Richard-Emmanuel Eastes introduces the four major functionalities expected of artificial intelligence tools — generative, predictive, adaptive and analytical — and explores a variety of applications that go well beyond chatbots, including tools for generating images, music, videos, educational materials, MCQs, and even avatars. He begins by presenting various uses of chatbots, with concrete examples inspired by his personal and family life. He shows how these tools can structure circus training by organizing sessions in several stages, generate names of figures to facilitate communication between partners, or even design fun psychological tests. The course continues with a comparison of several chatbots: Perplexity, appreciated for the quality of its responses despite a certain slowness; Grock, developed by Elon Musk, which has a libertarian and reactionary bias; and others like Copilot, Gemini, and ZenoChat, each with specific features such as customizing knowledge bases. The session then covers image generation tools, including DALL-E, illustrating its creative possibilities with family examples. For video, Richard-Emmanuel presents tools such as Sora and Runway, capable of creating realistic visual content from simple text descriptions. Regarding sound and voice generation, Richard-Emmanuel shows how Eleven Labs can clone a voice from text and he introduces Heygen, a video translation tool that adapts lip movements to new languages and generates video clones. He also discusses the integration of AI into applications such as Teams, Zoom, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, highlighting features to help create summaries, presentations, or quizzes. Richard-Emmanuel also presents Elicit, a research tool that facilitates bibliographic research and the summarization of scientific articles, offering valuable support for academic work. However, he warns against certain limitations of AI, including the inability of these tools to identify their own productions, thus emphasizing the importance of preserving academic integrity in the face of AI-generated content. This first episode thus provides an overview of the multiple possibilities offered by artificial intelligence while establishing a reflection on its limits, laying the foundations for the discussions and in-depth studies to come in the next courses. Test your knowledge on the video with Wooflash: https://app.wooflash.com/join/HNAP6DA...