Data protection is a delicate issue that is often debated. In France, and more generally throughout the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the reference text for personal data protection. In China, such legislation did not exist, at least, until Augu...
GPT-3, Open AI’s language model, available since July 2020, was at the time of its announcement, the largest language model ever trained with 175 billion parameters for a size of 45 terabytes. For comparison, GPT-2, Open AI’s previous language model, had been trained ...
The experts at Open AI announced one of their latest findings around language model behavior. They noticed that they could improve it by fine tuning a small organized dataset with less than a hundred example values. Fine Tuning Large Generalist Models to Fit a Specific Context Li...
During the Baidu World 2021 held on August 18, the Chinese technology giant unveiled its prototype autonomous vehicle. According to the firm, the car would have an autonomy of level 5 SAE, the highest level that exists. Alongside the announcement, Baidu also announced that it has...
Last May, Google announced in its 2021 edition of Google I/O, the fourth generation of its TPU chips (TPUv4). A research team from the Mountain View firm has developed a machine learning model, and more precisely, reinforcement learning, capable of designing the components of a c...
As mentioned by Elon Muskat the beginning of August, August 19, 2021 was an important day for the Tesla brand which organized the Tesla AI Day, an event focused on innovations in artificial intelligence. The firm’s CEO, but also the CEO of SpaceX took the opportunity to mak...
While Tesla AI Day took place on August 19, the leader in autonomous vehicles is seeing one of its technologies at the heart of a federal investigation. Indeed, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched its investigation into Tesla’s semi-auton...
German company SAP, which designs and sells software specializing in management and maintenance, has announced the acquisition of SwoopTalent, a company specializing in machine learning software for human resources management. Their main tool of the same name will be integrated i...
As part of a partnership between T-systems and Google Cloud, the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary is now offering managed services for the cloud computing platform provided by the Mountain View company. The two companies are thus further expanding their collaboration in the developmen...
Facebook AI announces the free access toAugLy, a Python library for artificial intelligence researchers. After the update of Dynaboard with Dynabench to provide an evaluation of natural language processing models, it is the turn of machine learning algorithms to be tested. This l...
At the beginning of June, Google announced, in collaboration with the Lichtman laboratory of Harvard University, the realization of a cartography of the human cerebral cortex in three dimensions. In parallel, a 1.4 petabyte (1015bytes) dataset has been published: it includes imag...
African fintech PNGme has just announced a $15 million funding round led by London-based investment fund Octopus Ventures. This funding comes less than a year after a first round of financing that resulted in the raising of three million dollars. With this money, the company anno...
Artificial intelligence is an extraordinary growth lever. The most optimistic analysts go so far as to envisage that 35% of the value of companies will be directly or indirectly attributable to AI solutions by 2027 (Source ResearchAndMarkets). Yet, according to these same analyst...
GoldSpot Discoveries, a leading technology services company, announces the acquisition of Geotic, a provider of software for the mining industry, including applications for geological and geophysical modeling, based in Val-d’Or, Quebec. The objective of this acquisition is ...
In his weeklynewsletter offered in Bloomberg, Mark Gurman claims that Apple employees working on health, AI and iCloud would have recently decided to leave the company. These are mainly engineers who make up this wave of departures, former defectors from other GAFA like Amazon, G...
While the shortage of electronic components is raging all over the world, this does not prevent some major technology groups from innovating and exploring new ways of designing. This is the case of Samsung, which announced that it has integrated the DSO.ai artificial intelligence...
Some time ago, NVIDIA and Sony proposed their latest patented innovations in the world of video games. Now it’s Tencent’s turn to announce the launch of a facial recognition program of its own design to “fight” gaming addiction among teenage gamers, mainly...
ShotSpotter, a US-based firearms detection company, has seen its technologies regularly used by police forces in over 100 US cities and counties. Recently, the company has been at the centre of a controversy that some of the evidence was potentially tampered with to justify arres...
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is behind the Blue Brain Project, an initiative that aims to combat Covid-19. To do this, an artificial intelligence tool has analyzed nearly 400,000 scientific articles to understand why some people contract severe for...
On October 6, 2021, Bpifrance launches through the Deeptech generation platform, a major event around innovation and technology. “Deeptech sees BIG” invites students and PhDs to come to the Accor Arena in Paris, but also live streaming, in order to better grasp all th...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly present in many sectors where it is used to automate certain processes or to help humans do them better. This is also the case in the electricity sector for which GlobalData has compiled several statistical figures to better visualize the a...
As part of a mission, several researchers captured in situ images of the planktonic spring bloom in the Arctic Ocean, resulting in a huge database. A team from the Laboratoire d’océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) at Sorbonne University and the Takuvik International Researc...
Genetec, a Quebec-based security, AI and operations solutions company, introduces the next generation of its AutoVu SharpV automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras. The firm claims that this new offering can be deployed anywhere very easily and quickly, in just a few mi...
According to a report in Le Canard Enchaîné, Google is going to develop automated detection models for undeclared swimming pools for the French tax authorities as part of the “Innovative Property” programme. The tax authorities have called on Google to develop the art...
The 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 23 July and 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Never have the games been so technological thanks to the presence of Omega, partner of the games since the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, despite an absence at the 1964 Olympics, already ...
Art and artificial intelligence: two fields that seem so far away, yet can find such beautiful applications. Earlier this month, a digital artist by the name of Dries Depoorter designed a toolto unmask Members of Parliament when they were using their smartphones in plenary. In th...
According to the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Review , many tools have been developed to combat Covid-19. However, their performance has not lived up to the expectations of doctors and specialists: none of the predictive tools developed have made a real difference, and w...
A research team at Google Brain has revisited multilayer perceptrons (MLP) by designing MLP-Mixer. This is a no-frills model that approaches state-of-the-art performance in ImageNet classification, and could achieve performance comparable to systems like ViT (Vision Transformer),...
After being announced in May, Nvidia is officially launching its hybrid cloud offering Base Command Platform in early August. The tool is a hosted cloud infrastructure that enables the development of end-to-end artificial intelligence applications. The platform is hosted by Equin...
Hootsuite, a social media management company, has announced the acquisition of Heydey, a Montreal-based conversational AI platform, for $60 million (€40 million). With this arrival, this player in the industry of social network management software for companies aims to strengthen...
In the Republic of Congo, a mid-term review workshop on the establishment of the African center for research on AI has been opened. On August 2, in Brazzaville, the Congolese Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Economy, Leon Juste Ibombo, inaugurated this workshop w...
Artificial intelligence in the defense sector is a topic that is gradually making its way into France: at the end of April, the ethics committee of the Ministry of the Armed Forces presented its opinion on lethal weapon systems and in July, the Ministry signed a partnership with ...
In partnership with the University of Côte d’Azur’s Faculty of Medicine, the Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Intelligence Artificielle Côte d’Azur (3IA Côte d’Azur) will offer a training course on AI and health. It will be aimed at healthcare professio...
In Birmingham, UK, the city council has partnered with start-up Urban Intelligence to undertake a review to identify the best land for new housing. In the country’s second most populous city, the need for housing has increased by 35%, making it important to build new homes ...
Since 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been actively working to provide high definition images of the sun. To achieve this, they have been operating a solar telescope for more than a decade whose lenses and sensors are gradually degrading as scientists use ...
Last month, GitHub announced the launch of its GitHub Copilotcode generation tool. This extension to Visual Studio Code leverages AI to help developers code more easily. Recently, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) expressed its opinion around this system which it considers ̶...
In August, many people go to the beach to spend a good holiday. The salt water, the sea air, the fine sand… in which we can unfortunately find cigarette butts thrown on the ground, which is far from being beneficial for our planet. To try to put an end to this pollution, tw...
Quebec researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning, to better understand the diet of the Northern Gannet, a seabird native to the North Atlantic. They connected a miniature camera, a GPS and a dive recorder to some of the animals in Bonaventure ...
Dataiku, whose cloud and big data solutionis available on Azure, Microsoft’s market space, has announced that it has raised $400 million from investment fund Tiger Global. With this new financing, the French unicorn is now valued at 4.6 billion dollars. Its objective: to st...
Last May, IBM presented its new artificial intelligence developmentsat the Think 2021 Conference. A new AI model was designed by the firm to help predict the progression of Parkinson’s disease. With the support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the goal of this tool is to b...
During hot periods, a plague threatens national parks and green areas: forest fires. Whether in France or, as is currently the case in Greece, Turkey, Sicily or the United States, hundreds of fires can occur in these areas and firefighters as well as nearby residents are the firs...
A team of researchers from Inserm and the University of Bordeaux at the Neurocentre Magendie have studied the interdependence of two brain regions: the basolateral amygdala and the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. These two areas would be involved and work together in the implement...
It’s a court decision that seems quite historic: an artificial intelligence called DABUS, designed within the framework of “The Artificial Inventor Project”, has been recognized as an “inventor” on the occasion of a patent application. The South Afri...
French cleantech company Metron announced a few weeks ago that it had raised €18 million in funding from the investment fund OGCI Climate Investments. Other investors in the Series B round included SK Gas, BNP Paribas, STATKRAFT Ventures and BREED REPLY. In parallel, the company ...
As part of the NeurIPS machine learning conference, Russian internet company Yandex announced the launch of the “Shifts Challenge.” The company is launching its three-part competition to solve the problem of shifting distribution in machine learning. Until October 17,...
It was in a tweet that Tesla’s CEO and SpaceX’s CEO, Elon Musk, announced the date of Tesla AI Day. This event will aim to share all the progress and innovations in the development of software and hardware in the automotive field, related to artificial intelligence. T...
The material yield is one of the main problems of sawmills. This is particularly the case for Tarteret Philippe SA, which specializes in hardwoods such as oak. The company has called on innovation and artificial intelligence and will benefit from the help of the Troyes and Aube C...
The European Commission last month launched “Women Tech EU”, an EU programme supporting deep tech start-ups led by women. The initiative is part of Horizon Europe, the new European innovation and research programme that follows Horizon 2020. The aim is to help these n...
Leila Character, a doctoral student in geography at the University of Texas at Austin, has developed an AI model capable of recognizing wrecks on the seafloor. The system uses photographs taken by ships and aerial images to identify underwater debris. This project was made possib...
A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has developed an algorithm that has enabled an autonomous drone to move faster than drones flown by human pilots. The quadrotor (a rotary-wing aircraft with four rotors) with this algorithm calculates optimal trajectories over tim...
The winners of the twenty-third edition of the i-Lab competition, the second edition of i-Phd and the seventh edition of the i-Nov competition were announced in July 2021. The time has come to launch the eighth call for i-Nov projects. 10 themes have been defined, including Digit...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces the creation of eleven new National Institutes for Artificial Intelligence Research. With this nearly $220 million initiative, NSF now has dedicated AI centers in 40 states across the United States. Seven research areas around AI wi...
1Kubator, the French innovation network, has announced that it has raised €9 million in parallel with its investment in the capital of Groupama. With this new financing, the company wishes to continue its development on the French territory, but also to reinforce its presence wit...
The computer industry is currently experiencing a particular crisis: a shortage of semiconductors, which are essential for the production of certain components or the operation of connected devices. The Covid-19 pandemic has prevented factories, especially those in Taiwan, the co...
In Spain, an ambitious project around AI is tending to take shape. A group of private investors, led by the owners of the Basque teleoperator Dialoga Group, wants to build a European center for AI in the province of Alava in the Spanish Basque Country. The aim is thus to help Eur...
Through Rapid Motor Adaptation (RMA ),Facebookis making progress in adapting robots to their environment in order to develop their motor skills. Adapting robots to an environment just like a human can do in everyday life Humans can walk with relative ease over rocks, through mud,...
Deepfake is a technique based on artificial intelligence that allows audio or video files to be superimposed on other existing files in order to reproduce a person’s voice or change their face and thus make them say things or do things that they have never done. This techno...
The Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) committee linked to the European Parliament proposes a study on artificial intelligence and European diplomacy. Entitled “The Governance of Artificial Intelligence as a New External Policy of the European Union”, the...
Kili Technology, a startup that helps companies run high-performance, large-scale artificial intelligence projects with its tools, has announced a $25 million round of funding from Balderton Capital and its original investors, Serena Capital and Headline. This comes six months af...
Verified Market Research, an agency specializing in market research, has published its survey on the machine learning market as well as its deployment by companies. A market valued at $2.4 billion in 2019 and expected to reach $47.3 billion by the year 2027, growing at a CAGR of ...
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