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CEA-Leti develops an augmented driving simulator to assess the physical and mental state of the driver

Studies are currently being conducted on driving simulators equipped with sensors developed at CEA-Leti. The aim is to make vehicles capable of assessing the physical and mental state of their drivers and intervening accordingly to ensure optimum safety. As part of the European H...

Orano Group and its partners launch the udd@Orano project for industrial innovation

A development project called udd@Orano (Usines de demain sur les sites industriels d’Orano) was launched by the Orano group (formerly Areva) and brings together 11 industrial partners for a period of 36 months: 6 small and medium-sized companies (Aeraccess, Axionable, Diota...

The Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence acquires a custom-made computing machine dedicated to AI

While artificial intelligence is a global issue, the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) is one of the French references in research. The center brings together a strategic range of modern AI disciplines in a single location in the heart of Paris and recently annou...

The WAICF in Cannes promises to be a major international event on artificial intelligence

The World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) will be held in February. This event is already shaping up to be one of the major events of the year and will be attended by over 120 key players in the AI market, international speakers and numerous innovative companies. Held on the Côte d...

G7’s Tesla Model 3 crashes badly, company temporarily mothballs the model

According to information from a police source, made public by AFP a taxi driver driving a Tesla Model 3 had a serious accident causing 10 injuries, 7 of which are in absolute emergency on Saturday in Paris. The taxi company has decided to take precautionary measures by stopping i...

Chinese facial recognition specialist SenseTime turns around and gets blacklisted

Late last week, the U.S. Treasury announced that it had again placed SenseTime on its blacklist due to its facial recognition technology targeting the Uighur minority. As a reminder, in 2019, the blue-chip Chinese company had already been sanctioned for having its proximity to th...

Timnit Gebru launches DAIR research institute to foster ethical development of AI

Timnit Gebru, a researcher specializing in the ethics of artificial intelligence and particularly algorithmic bias, announced in early December the launch of an AI research institute called DAIR (Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research). DAIR aims to develop the ethics of AI...

Focus on SEEKER, an artificial intelligence model to fight against wildlife trafficking

The fight against poaching and wildlife trafficking is at the heart of several research projects. These include the Lindbergh Foundation’s drones, which Neurala has partnered with, the TrailGuard AI camera from Resolve, in partnership with the National Geographic Society, I...

Why the Jean Zay supercomputer is increasing its performance in artificial intelligence

The Jean Zay supercomputer is at the heart of several cutting-edge research projects such as Big Science. It has become an essential tool, and ActuIA has also devoted a feature to it in the next issue of the magazine, due out in a few days. Last month, GENCI, the French national ...

US company equips military dogs with augmented reality headsets

The Small Business Innovation Research program, led by the U.S. Army Research Office, has funded Seattle-based small business Command Sight Inc. to provide military dogs with augmented reality headsets. They allow the handler to give them directional commands while the dog operat...

Deep learning to develop smart trawl nets at heart of Game of Trawls project

Every year, 20 million tonnes of fish caught in nets are either thrown back into the sea, often dead, or brought back to the quayside but not marketed. This is a significant waste and above all a serious problem for the environment and wildlife. This is what motivated the GAME OF...

How Belgium plans to reform its data protection system

Like other European countries, Belgium has created a regulator for personal data protection. Initially called the Privacy Commission, this authority became the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in 2018. Mathieu Michel, Secretary of State for Privacy, recently confirmed that he is w...

Focus on E2, NVIDIA’s Digital Earth Twin Project and its Applications

During his keynote address at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced plans to begin building a supercomputer, Earth 2 (E2), a digital twin of the Earth, capable of predicting climate change by leveraging computational speeds powered by artificial i...

Montpellier-based ITK raises €10 million for connected agriculture

ITK, a Montpellier-based company specializing in AI applied to agriculture, announced this week that ithas raised €10 million in funding fromEDF Pulse Holding, Starquest Capital, as well as BNP and Banque Dupuy de Parseval (Groupe Banque Populaire du Sud) .Headed by Aline Bsaibes...

China: a province would use artificial intelligence to target journalists and foreign students

According to a BBC News article, the Chinese province of Henan is developing a surveillance system with facial recognition. The aim of the system is to detect journalists, foreign students and other “people of concern” to the authorities. Henan province has a populati...

An artificial neuron could be used to develop tomorrow’s electronic memory

Researchers from the CNRS and the Physics Laboratory at ENS-PSL have developed a prototype ionic neuron with the same transmission properties as a neuron. This innovative research, published in Science, could pave the way for the implementation of simple learning algorithms, and ...

With its Cookie Factory, UNESCO proposes to “hack” cookie algorithms

A new extension has appeared on the Chrome Web Store: Cookie Factory, on the initiative of UNESCO. The organization wants to raise awareness in a playful way of the challenges of respecting privacy online. To do this, all you need to do is to create a fictitious virtual identity ...

When machine learning allows the development of new mathematical models

Since the 1960s, mathematicians have used computers to help them discover patterns and formulate conjectures. In a recently published study , a team of researchers at the University of Sydney used artificial intelligence systems to try to solve some long-standing mathematical pro...

A look back at the three winners of the Inria Science Awards 2021: Jean-Bernard Lasserre, the CONVECS team and Serena Villata

Established in 2011, the INRIA Awards aim to promote the contributions and successes of those who advance the computer and mathematical sciences, thereby contributing to the development of the digital world. Organized by INRIA and its historical partners, the Académie des science...

Second ITU AI/ML in 5G competition aims to prove the importance of AI in medicine

“How to apply ITU’s ML architecture in 5G networks” is the theme of the second global ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge launched by ITU, International Telecommunication Union as part of the AI for Good project. There is no doubt that AI/ML will play a major role in the ...

See you on December 9 for the “Interactive Access to Information” Day organized by the GDR-TAL, AFIA and ARIA

The AFIA (French Association for Artificial Intelligence), through its Human Language Technologies (HLT) college, the ARIA (Association for Information Research and Applications) and the GDR-TAL (Research Group for Automatic Language Processing) are organizing a joint day on the ...

AI and sport: OGC Nice relies on Stats Perform’s solutions for analysis and recruitment

Stats Perform, a leading provider of data technology and artificial intelligence for sports, signed a new agreement with OGC Nice on December 1. Some 20 years ago, Nice was one of the first football clubs to adopt player tracking solutions for its first team. Satisfied with the b...

Back to the Center of AI for Science and Science for AI launched by the CNRS

At the end of November, the CNRS officially launched its AI Centre for Science and Science for AI. The creation of this multidisciplinary center had been proposed during the 2019-2023 Contract of Objectives and Performance (COP) signed with the State. Unique at the European level...

Canadian government funds artificial intelligence-based water treatment system

Last week, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, and the Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke, Élisabeth Brière, announced an investment of $900,000, or just over €620,000, in BioAlert Solutions throughSDTC. This initial investme...

What future for AI in industry? Ey-Parthenon survey raises the need for trusted AI

Industry is one of the sectors where digital transformation is accelerating exponentially, manufacturers confirm the need for certified or validated trusted AI solutions. Mandated by the General Secretariat for Investment, EY-Parthenon has conducted an AI market study toevaluate ...

Twitch introduces new AI-based moderation tool for cyberstalking

The confinements since the start of the pandemic have increased the use of smartphones and mobile apps tenfold. Amazon’s interactive video game and streaming platform, Twitch, has been popular with young people. Confronted for months with the problem of cyberbullying and cr...

Visual AI for business: Alteia announces EUR 15 million in EIB funding

Alteia announced the signing of a €15 million financing agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB). This amount will support its investments in R&D and marketing to accelerate its development in the deep techsector of artificial intelligence applied to visual data. Loc...

Semiconductors: European Chips Act to be presented in early 2022 for an autonomous Europe

The need to recover a policy of sovereignty for critical infrastructures at the European level and to pursue a policy of common economic and digital independence is one of France’s priorities. Faced with the difficulties in supplying chips and the threats to technology high...

Suez and Logiroad.ai join forces to optimize intelligent waste collection via intelligent trucks

During the Salon des Maires et des Collectivités locales, Suez and Logiroad.ai signed a partnership to offer “intelligent trucks” capable of detecting road defects thanks to artificial intelligence. The data, provided by the household waste collection trucks equipped ...

Hacklathon CO2 Industry: the Renault group unveils the four selected industrial decarbonisation projects

As part of its climate plan to make its plants in Europe carbon neutral by 2030, Renault Group unveiled the four projects selected at the end of the “CO2 Hackathon” at the end of November. This event wasorganized to accelerate the development and deployment of low-car...

AI and Robotics: the NAIA.R Forum will be held from 9 to 11 December 2021 in Bordeaux

NAIA.R returns for a second 3-day edition, organized from December 9 to 11, 2021, at Hangar 14 in Bordeaux. Artificial intelligence and robotics will be on the agenda of the event co-organized by Sud Ouest and SUEZ, with the support of the University of Bordeaux, the Nouvelle-Aqu...

Axionable obtains the first “Artificial Intelligence” certification from LNE following its audit

Axionable, a specialist in AI services and solutions for sustainable purposes, has announced that it has obtained the first ever “Artificial Intelligence” certification issued by the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE). The aim of this certifica...

Increasing AI skills: Interview with Emmanuel Renaux from the AI Project Manager course – IMT Nord Europe AI Project Manager – IMT Nord Europe

ITM Nord Europe is offering a second session of its AI Project Manager training for 2022. The creation of this certification aims to support the transformation of skills around artificial intelligence, an essential issue for many professionals. Emmanuel Renaux, co-educational dir...

Julie Grollier, winner of the “Woman Scientist of the Year” award of the 20th Irène Joliot-Curie Prize

The Irène Joliot-Curie Prize ceremony, which rewards women scientists, this year featured five female researchers instead of three. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the prize, a “Special Prize for Commitment” had been announced and finally two candidates wer...

A look back at the Unesco recommendation establishing ethical rules for artificial intelligence

Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, presented last week the first-ever global standard on the ethics of artificial intelligence, adopted by UNESCO’s 193 Member States at the international organization’s General Conference. UNESCO had highlighted back in Novemb...

LXRepair and the Gustave Roussy Institute join forces to personalize cancer radiotherapy with Radio Care

LXREPAIR, a biotech specializing in the development of predictive in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests for cancer therapies, and the Gustave Roussy cancer center, have announced the establishment of a joint laboratory called “RADIO CARE”, winner of the LABCOM program of th...

Call for projects: “Technological maturation and demonstration of embedded artificial intelligence solutions

Launched as part of the France 2030 plan and the new phase of the national strategy for artificial intelligence, the call for projects “Technological maturation and demonstration of embedded artificial intelligence solutions” is open until October 5, 2022. Focus on it...

Profiling: Review of the Council of Europe recommendation on the protection of personal data

In response to developments in profiling techniques over the past decade, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted a recommendation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in early November. It provides that respect for ...

AMD Introduces New Instinct MI 200 6nm GPUs to Further Accelerate Data-Driven Research

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), a U.S.-based manufacturer of semiconductors, microprocessors, and graphics cards, recently introduced the Instinct MI200 6nm GPUs, exascale-class GPU accelerators. The AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators include the AMD Instinct™ MI250X high-perfo...

Lyon-based fintech Mon Petit Placement raises €6 million

Mon Petit Placement, a start-up launched in 2017, closed its third round of funding this November for €6 million. The Lyon-based fintech, which aims to democratize financial investment, had secured €650,000 in October 2018 during a first round of funding, then €1.5 million during...

Fighting Cybercrime: The Canadian Government’s AI Challenge to Small Business

Like other Canadian police agencies, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has difficulty accessing encrypted data seized during criminal investigations. That’s why they’ve commissioned Innovative Solutions Canada to challenge small businesses to come up with a leg...

Continuity announces a €5 million round of funding from Elaia Partners, Bpifrance and Kamet Ventures

Continuity has raised €5 million in Seed funding from Elaia Partners, Bpifrance and Kamet Ventures announced the startup this week. The start-up is developing a SaaS solution based on artificial intelligence and open data to help insurers of professionals, VSEs and SMEs make fast...

ADAM9, the gene involved in severe forms of Covid-19 identified by artificial intelligence

Why are some Covid-19 patients asymptomatic while others develop severe forms, notably ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome)? Researchers from Inserm and the University of Strasbourg within the U1109 “Immunology and Molecular Rheumatology” unit, in collaboration ...

Mailchimp uses machine learning for Content Optimize, its new marketing optimization tool

When it started in Atlanta in 2001, email marketing tool Mailchimp set out to help small businesses with the technology they needed to grow. Today, it’s an all-in-one integrated marketing company thanks in large part to the acquisition of AI platform Inspector 6 in July 202...

SOFIA project: Artificial intelligence for vision in the service of the maintenance of engineering structures

France has many civil infrastructures (bridges, buildings, networks…) subject to aggressive environments, to the ageing of their elements or their constituent materials, to evolutions or to exceptional operating conditions. To assess the state of conservation of engineering...

Alphabet to search for new drugs using artificial intelligence with Isomorphic Labs

Alphabet announced this month the creation of a new spin-off, Isomorphic Labs, which will be a pharmaceutical research lab leveraging the artificial intelligence of the company’s DeepMind. Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, will also head it. The lab is not exp...

A look back at the creation of LaborIA to better measure the impact of AI in companies

On November 19, Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration, visited the Matrice innovation institute to sign an agreement with Bruno Sportisse of Inria to create a laboratory dedicated to artificial intelligence. Called LaborIA and operated by Matrice, this r...

Vienna, first city in the world to be certified by IEEE AI Ethics for its digital humanism strategy

This November, the city of Vienna, Austria, was awarded the IEEE AI EThics certification for its commitment to a digital humanism strategy. The IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, and t...

IBM announces the arrival of its new 127 qubit superconducting quantum processor: EAGLE

IBM announced, during the conference “Quantum Summit 2021”, the arrival of EAGLE, its processor of 127 qubits and would thus steal the show from the team of the Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei which conceived an identical system but of “only” 66 programmable...

Call for projects 2022: European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) opens in December

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) was established to improve the coordination of progress of European (or European-associated) countries in the field of rare disease research and to implement the objectives of the International Rare Disease Research Consortiu...

Australian submarines: AUKUS pact to share unspecified artificial, quantum and cyber intelligence capabilities

On September 15, 2021, we learned of the AUKUS pact, a defence alliance between Australia, Great Britain and the United States. It is within the framework of this pact that Australia has just officially committed itself this Monday, November 22, to a contested program to equip it...

Synapse AI Podcast #6: Marc Leclair, Coordinator of the Transdisciplinary Institute for Quantum Information – INTRIQ

For this 6th episode of Synapse AI, Mathieu Barreau takes us into the world of quantum science with Marc Leclair, coordinator of INTRIQ (Institut transdisciplinaire d’information quantique). INTRIQ’s mission is to federate the research effort in quantum information in...

PyTorch: The SaLinA library explained by Ludovic Denoyer (FAIR)

Last month, FAIR presented SaLinA, a lightweight library using an agent-based approach to implement sequential decision models, including (but not limited to) reinforcement learning algorithms. To find out more, we spoke to Ludovic Denoyer, research scientist at FAIR Paris –...

Excellence AI Lab, the new laboratory from Atos and NVIDIA that will run on the BullSequana X supercomputer

Atos and NVIDIA are partners in different fields such as supercomputers, edge solutions and health with the Clara platform. On November 15, they announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence laboratory, the Excellence AI Lab (EXAIL), where scientists and researchers wil...

Sanofi and Owkin partner in the fight against cancer with artificial intelligence and federated learning

Last week, Sanofi announced a $180 million investment in Owkin. The French-American start-up, which specializes in AI and precision medicine, is building predictive artificial intelligence models applied to biomedicine. Sanofi and Owkin’s joint initiatives will be developed...

Conference: artificial intelligence to improve the quality of life of citizens (replay)

Milestone Systems and NVIDIA announced a partnership last month to bring artificial intelligence to the heart of cities. Two online events were announced at the time. The first, a conference in collaboration with XXII, a French video protection company, was held on November 18, 2...

Open Data: DILA modernizes the opening of its economic data via new APIs

In a bid to modernise access to data, the French Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (DILA) has announced that it will open up the data on its economic sites via new application programming interfaces (APIs). Following a circular of the Prime Minister of 27 April 202...

Putting artificial intelligence to work for the forces: at the heart of the European STARTLIGHT project

All European countries are affected by crime and terrorism. To better combat these security challenges, 18 European countries, convinced of the need for a sustainable use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement agencies (LEAs), have come together to decide on a collaboratio...

Orange inaugurated the first French Open RAN laboratory

On November 10, Orange inaugurated the first laboratory dedicated to Open RAN (Open Radio Access Networks) in France. This centre, a test and integration space, will enable companies in the Open Ran ecosystem, the reference technology for future mobile networks, to test and valid...

Attend the WaiTALK by Women in AI France, November 24, 2021

The international Women in AI community is organizing a not-to-be-missed event on November 24: WaiTALK. Come to Scaleway to participate in this exchange with three experts in artificial intelligence. Women in AI has more than 8000 students and AI professionals working for inclusi...