The Creators

Séance 1 : Still Frame

  • Objectif : découvrir l’univers de Westworld et introduire les grandes questions liées à l’intelligence artificielle
  • Activités : travail lexical sur les enjeux de l’IA et le vocabulaire de Westworld, compréhension vidéo à partir de la bande-annonce de la saison 1, découverte des personnages principaux et courte discussion sur les enjeux actuels de l’IA
  • À retenir : savoir identifier les personnages principaux, comprendre les éléments essentiels d’une bande-annonce et mobiliser un premier lexique pour parler des risques et des limites de l’intelligence artificielle

Vocabulary Kit: A meeting with one's maker

Nouns
  • series = série
  • theme park = parc à thème
  • host = host
  • guest = guest / visiteur
  • artificial intelligence = intelligence artificielle
  • consciousness = conscience
  • free will = libre arbitre
  • ethics = éthique
  • memory = mémoire
  • immortality = immortalité
AI issues
  • jobs and automation = emplois et automatisation
  • privacy = vie privée
  • surveillance = surveillance
  • bias = biais
  • discrimination = discrimination
  • control = contrôle
  • copyright = droit d'auteur
  • legal responsibility = responsabilité juridique
  • cost = coût
  • profit = profit
Verbs and expressions
  • to take place = se dérouler
  • to be based on = être fondé sur
  • to create = créer
  • to allow = permettre
  • to live out one's fantasies = réaliser ses fantasmes
  • to harm humans = faire du mal aux humains
  • to raise questions = soulever des questions
  • to become conscious = devenir conscient
  • to preserve consciousness = préserver la conscience
  • to deal with an issue = traiter un problème / enjeu

Document: Robert Ford & Peter Abernathy

Robert Ford interviews Peter Abernathy — Westworld S1E1

Robert Ford interviews Peter Abernathy — Westworld, Season 1, Episode 1 “The Original” — HBO

Comprehension

1.
Look at the still frame and sort the words into the correct categories.
Observe l'image fixe et classe les mots dans la bonne colonne.
Appearance
Personality
Relationship

Describe the still frame

1.
Describe the still frame: the setting, the characters (appearance, posture, clothing, expression). Use the title "A meeting with one's maker" and what you already know to imagine the topic of their conversation.
Décris l'image fixe : le lieu, les personnages (apparence, posture, vêtements, expression). Utilise le titre et ce que tu sais déjà pour imaginer le sujet de leur conversation.

Translate: Still Frame

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Séance 2 : The Video

  • Objectif : comprendre et analyser un extrait vidéo d'une série télévisée américaine
  • Activités : visionnage de l'extrait, compréhension orale, analyse des personnages et de la scène, questions d'analyse, traduction de phrases
  • À retenir : les hosts sont des androïdes programmés ; to investigate (enquêter) ; malfunction (dysfonctionnement) ; consciousness (conscience)

Document: The Original

Westworld, Season 1, Episode 1 — “The Original” — HBO Series — 3:07

Script
Bernard
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We've run a full diagnostic, but the results are, well, confusing.
Robert
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Tell me, what happened to your program?
Peter
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(Shivering) When we are born, we cry we are come to this great stage of f-f-fools.
Ford
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That is enough. Tell me, do you have access to your previous configuration?
Peter
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Yes.
Robert
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Access that, please. What is your name?
Peter
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Mr. Peter Abernathy.
Robert
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Mr. Abernathy, what are your drives?
Peter
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Tend to my herd. Look after my wife.
Robert
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Your final drive?
Peter
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Well, my daughter Dolores, of course. I must protect Dolores. I am who I am because of her, and, well, I... I wouldn't have it... I-I have to warn her.
Robert
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Warn who?
Peter
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Dolores. The things they do to her. The things you do to her. I have to protect her. I have to help her. I... She's got to get out.
Robert
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Very good, Mr. Abernathy. That's enough.
Bernard
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This behaviour, we're miles beyond a glitch here.
Robert
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Access your current build, please. What is your name?
Peter
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Rose is a rose... is a rose.
Robert
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What is your itinerary?
Peter
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To meet my maker.
Robert
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Uh-huh. Well, you're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?
Peter
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By most mechanical and dirty hand... (laughs) I shall have such revenges on you both. The things I will do. What they are, yet I know not, but they will be the terrors of the earth.

The Video — Comprehension

1.
First listen — watch the extract once without stopping. Note down everything you understand: characters, setting, mood, key words.
Première écoute — regarde l'extrait une première fois sans t'arrêter. Note tout ce que tu comprends : personnages, lieu, atmosphère, mots clés.
2.
Using speech and picture, pick up as much information about the characters as you can: nature, relationship, emotions, etc.
À partir des paroles et de l'image, collecte un maximum d'informations sur les personnages : leur nature, leur relation, leurs émotions, etc.
3.
Say why the characters are having this conversation.
Explique pourquoi les personnages ont cette conversation.
4.
What does it suggest about the future of the park?
Que suggère cet extrait sur l'avenir du parc ?
5.
Listen to Peter Abernathy carefully. Do you notice anything special about the way he sometimes speaks? Pick up some phrases and copy them into an Internet search engine. Then say something about Westworld's robots.
Écoute attentivement Peter Abernathy. Remarques-tu quelque chose de particulier dans sa façon de parler parfois ? Relève quelques phrases et copie-les dans un moteur de recherche. Dis ensuite quelque chose sur les robots de Westworld.
6.
Say what this extract suggests about science and its applications.
Dis ce que cet extrait suggère sur la science et ses applications.

Translate: The Video

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Séance 3: Evaluation

  • Type d’évaluation : QCM
  • Axe : Innovations scientifiques et responsabilité
  • Compétences : médiation (expliquer / traduire / résumer)
  • Coefficient : à confirmer
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EVALUATION — A meeting with one's maker Questions à choix unique
1.
"Guest" means…
2.
In the still frame, the setting is…
3.
"Free will" means…
4.
"To take place" means…
5.
"To harm humans" means…
6.
In the still frame, Peter Abernathy is…
7.
"Immortality" means…
8.
Ford's appearance in the still frame suggests…
9.
Which word best describes Peter Abernathy in the still frame?
10.
What are Peter Abernathy's "drives"?
11.
What is Peter Abernathy's role / programming in the park?
12.
What is unusual about Peter's speech in the video?
13.
"Rose is a rose is a rose" is a quote from…
14.
What does Peter threaten at the end of the extract?
15.
In the video, "drives" means…
16.
What does Bernard say the diagnostic results are?
17.
"When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools" is from…
18.
What does Peter say his "final drive" is?
19.
"To raise questions" means…
20.
"To deal with an issue" means…