Artificial Intelligence as a Way of Entering Culture. A Case Study in the Translation of a Literary Work
摘要
This chapter presents a teaching-learning experiment in grade 6 (11-year-olds) focusing on the understanding of literature and language through the specific use of a software program built on a large language model (MLM) infrastructure, the DeepL translator. We describe how this process unfolded in two classes, through the Cooperative Engineering Collective analysis of study films, which we use to show how this device enables students to construct a practice of translation and a new conception of what a language is. This chapter thus describes, in an exploratory manner, a first way of integrating the DeepL translator into an instructional apparatus intended for young students. This chapter is about students starting secondary education, but it is based on a way of teaching and using AI that is also relevant to primary education. The chapter is presented as an initial inquiry, intended to be extended over a long duration, into the didactic use of an MLM translator from a culturalist perspective, in which artificial intelligence should help to better understand and renew culture.