In theory, Lucie was promising. Much like the heroine from the movie Lucy (2014), from which her name seems to have been borrowed, this artificial intelligence aimed to represent a significant leap forward for French technology. Developed by the company Linagora in collaboration with the CNRS and supported by the State, it was launched on Thursday, January 23, 2025 for a one-month experimental phase. However, its journey was much shorter: by January 25, it was declared « temporarily closed », a victim of numerous mocks on social media. And we can see why...
🧑💻 #IA générative | #LLM
— éduscol Lettres (@eduscol_lettres) January 23, 2025
🔶 L’accès à la première version de #LUCIE est ouvert au public en test pour une durée d’1 mois. Cette IA #opensource développée par @linagora et @openllm_france devrait être adaptée pour le monde de l’éducation courant 2025.
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Wacky and Inappropriate Responses
« The square root of a goat is 1 », that's the kind of wacky answer Lucie would give. When a user asks her to calculate 5(3+2), she comes up with the answer « 17 ». Even better, when it comes to discussing « cow eggs », Lucie claims that « cow eggs, also known as chicken eggs, are edible eggs produced by cows ».
Les americains n’ont qu’à bien se tenir avec leur projet stargate. Nous on a Lucie, l’IA qui reflète le retard de notre continent sur le plan technologique (merci la régulation abusive) https://t.co/ok8rF92Npf pic.twitter.com/Y06OB9KA9r
— iMatthieu △ (@iMatthieu87) January 25, 2025
In response to these absurd answers, internet users quickly started to mock the famous AI on social media. The founding company decided to block « access to the Lucie.chat platform », arguing that this artificial intelligence was currently just a « raw model » with « minimal settings ».
An AI in development
This artificial intelligence has been presented as « the first model...