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Was Alan Turing the first Artificial Intelligence engineer? And then what is AI? And how would this job be different from the job of Data Scientist?
Here are all the questions I asked myself when we created this page. And I will take the time to answer it.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence brings together the art and science of creating systems that are perceived as intelligent by humans.

So what does that mean? On the one hand, that a Data Scientist who makes a predictive model that predicts the price of fuel oil tomorrow, has done something very very complicated (or not). But for all that, a human being will not find that this system is intelligent or not, because it does not necessarily have any interaction with it.

We talk about Agents, we talk about conversations, we talk about Conversational Agents but not only. Can I take the opportunity to tell you about the turing test?

The Turing Test

Turing's test in his writings was called "Imitation Game". The principle of the test and to chat several subjects, guinea pigs via messaging like Whatsapp with several interlocutors. And he must distinguish between robots and humans. There have been times when a robot won this game. But he pretended to be a 7-year-old child, so the conversation made no sense at all.

Conversations are a big part of the lives of AI engineers. And the subject is interesting, because humans want to do something other than click on 5 or 6 links, or navigate in an IVR (when you are on the voice server and it offers you to type on 1, or 8). But even when the chatbot does not understand what we are asking of it, we would like to go back to something simple. Or talk to a human.

The understanding of your messages by a human is called NLP: Natural Language Processing. And it goes far beyond Text-To-Speech or Voice-to-text. It's about understanding the user's intent, problem, and emotions. And me already as a human being I sometimes have trouble understanding my fellow human beings, imagine what it's like for an AI engineer to try to design a machine that includes at the same time all humans and each of the humans. It does not mean anything.

What skills for an AI Engineer?

One of the first skills that I found amazing in the people designing these agents was copywriting, what people on Linkedin today call: Copywriting.
It goes beyond just written expression. We are talking about story telling. For the conversation to go well, the user must be involved in a scenario that is fluid. So that conversation options are restricted like a funnel, and the agent is not lost like a compass to the North Pole.

This also implies an ability to understand the business, the use case. This is user research. And I find that interesting for two reasons.

The first is that the AI ​​engineer will pre-engineer the machine's work by trying to understand and guess what the intentions and problems encountered by users are in the context in which they are using the machine.

The second is that the AI ​​engineer is almost a UX Resercher. He's also a bit like an architect of new technologies. Like an interior designer, he is an artist who masters the technique to create an experience.
And we come back to the beginning, Artificial Intelligence is above all the experience of the human, of the user.

Experience Creators

The AI ​​engineer must therefore be creative. It will stimulate our imagination. He's going to have an eye for detail, otherwise the magic breaks.
He is observant, patient, and empathetic who observes others.
It is agile, because it is possible that it builds the path as the users progress.

Yes, it's a bit of a guide or an organizer of magical organized trips, on a daily basis.