This text was translated by AI. Original French source: Fench Article.

Artificial Intelligence

After brushing up against what artificial intelligence could bring me, I came to the conclusion that I had to establish clear rules of use in order to stay aligned with my values. Although I've always appreciated and been curious about new technologies, I have to say this is truly the first time I've had to take a more drastic stance on the use of one of them. Many people consider AI a tool. I don't believe that's the case. Why? Because a tool is there to help you in creating or accomplishing a project. AI produces final results where your talent, your skill or your knowledge were in no way called upon. Just a prompt, a directive, and there you go — Aunt Ginette can afford to create cinematic-quality images or videos without having any minimal knowledge of everything it would take an expert to model in 3D, texture, light a scene, animate, edit the video, create a soundtrack, etc.

Who is Philip Rivard?

It started with a wrong turn.

In 1999, I walked into a vocational training center to check out the automotive mechanics program. But on my way through, I passed a room full of drafting tables and computers and something clicked. I signed up that day for technical drawing, almost on instinct.

It was only afterward that I realized my father had worked in the same field. That as a kid, I used to draw on the back of the large-format blueprints he'd bring home from work. Some things find you before you find them.