Raphaël Doan: "I don't believe that AI should be seen as a competitor to human beings"

LE FIGARO. - Your book, If Rome had not fallen, presents itself as written with the help of artificial intelligence. How did you do it in practice?

Raphaël DOAN.- It is constructed like a dialogue: I ask a text-synthesis artificial intelligence to imagine what might have happened if the course of history had changed – in this case, if the Greeks and Romans had discovered the steam engine. AI invents events, intrigues, possible evolutions of society, and I then comment on these inventions, with a historical, economic or cultural perspective. This is far from instantaneous, not only because half of the book is written by hand, but also because getting the AI to generate text, select the right results, link them together, edit them to improve them is a major job. I also used other artificial intelligences to illustrate the book, so we have like windows...

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