{"id":145080,"date":"2026-05-15T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geab.eu\/shall-we-play-a-game-jai-construit-lintelligence-qui-rend-mon-metier-obsolete-yannick-bolatti\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:02:20","slug":"shall-we-play-a-game-i-built-the-intelligence-that-renders-my-profession-obsolete-yannick-bollati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geab.eu\/en\/shall-we-play-a-game-i-built-the-intelligence-that-renders-my-profession-obsolete-yannick-bollati\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall we play a game? “I built the intelligence that renders my profession obsolete” (Yannick Bollati)"},"content":{"rendered":"

VISION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I was sixteen.<\/p>\n

It was December 1983. WarGames <\/em>had just come out. I saw it back then, as a teenager, and something took root inside me. A fascination with computers, a vague desire to understand these new machines that were beginning to find their way into homes and into the collective imagination. For those who haven\u2019t seen the film, imagine this: an American teenager, passionate about computers, accidentally logs into a military computer. He thinks he\u2019s found a game. In reality, he\u2019s communicating with the WOPR, a machine tasked with simulating nuclear war scenarios for the US military. The WOPR doesn\u2019t really understand the difference between a simulation and a real war. It plays, but its game could trigger the end of the world.<\/p>\n

And then there was that moment:<\/p>\n

Shall we play a game?<\/em><\/p>\n

A simple sentence, written on a screen. A machine that speaks. An intelligence that suggests a game.<\/p>\n

Today, with chatbots, it seems almost commonplace. You type a sentence, a machine replies. But back then, for a teenager, there was something magical and unsettling about that scene. The computer was no longer just a tool. It was becoming a conversation partner. It had a presence. It wasn\u2019t merely running a programme; it seemed to be entering into a relationship. Then there was Professor Falken, the system\u2019s original creator. A scientist withdrawn from the world, somewhat disillusioned, who realised that his machine could keep playing whilst humans would pay the real price of the game. In the end, WOPR must be taught that some games have no winner.<\/p>\n

The machine simulates all possible outcomes of a nuclear war and eventually concludes:\t\t

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