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By Dr. Tawhid CHTIOUI, Founding President of aivancity, the Leading School of AI and Data 1. The Comforting Illusion of Technical Training By the end of 2025, a strange consensus had taken hold. Faced with the sudden emergence…
On November 5, 2025, Google did what few governments would have dared to imagine: it announced the launch, scheduled for 2027, of a constellation of satellites capable of performing artificial intelligence calculations directly from space.
He walks into the classroom, just like every morning. But this morning, something has changed.
On his desk, his computer has already prepared the lesson plan, selected three videos appropriate for the students’ level, automatically sent the list of absentees to the school office, and identified—based on interactions from all of the previous day’s classes—which students are at risk of falling behind.
He walks into the classroom, just as he does every morning. But this morning, something is different. On his desk, his computer has already prepared the lesson plan, selected three videos tailored to the students’ level, automatically sent the attendance list to the administration, and, by analyzing interactions from yesterday’s classes, identified which students are most at risk of falling behind.
A ten-year-old boy sits down in front of the screen. Curious, he types in a word he heard at school but can’t quite picture: platypus. He wants to see what this funny animal looks like—one his classmates have described as an impossible mix of a duck and a beaver. He expects to laugh, to be amazed, to discover the whimsy of nature.
In early July 2025, Elon Musk sparked yet another controversy in the already sensitive world of artificial intelligence. Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, has just been reprogrammed to adopt a more direct, sometimes sarcastic, and often provocative tone. Its stated goal: to offer a broader “algorithmic freedom of expression” than that of other conversational models, which are deemed too moderate, too cautious, or excessively neutral.
Imagine this. You ask a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence—packed with artificial neurons, fed a massive amount of global data, and more connected than your teenager on a Saturday night—a question, and it replies, without batting an eye: “I don’t know.”
Since the start of the AI revolution—let’s say with the release of ChatGPT-3—the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have been advancing rapidly.
Let’s put this into perspective
