After introducing BlenderBot in 2020, the BlenderBot 2.0 iteration in 2021, META unveiled BlenderBot 3 on August 5. As with its predecessors, the company is sharing the model’s weights and codes with the scientific community with the intention of helping advance conversatio...
Deep learningis used in many fields today, and it is increasingly being used in history. Daniel Patt, a software engineer at Google, teamed up with financier Jed Limmer, to design the “From Numbers to Names” site, which offers users who have family members who perishe...
As Phase IV (2019-2022) of the competitiveness clusters comes to an end in December 2022, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, and Roland Lescure, Minister Delegate for Industry, announced in early August the opening of the call...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the research arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has launched the Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) program to detect, monitor and characterize large-scale construction projects and other ...
On August 5, NAVYA, a French company specializing in the design and construction of autonomous, electric and robotic vehicles, announced a new partnership in the United States with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), AECOM and the City of White Bear Lake, for the ...
After technical stops in the Azores and Halifax, Canada, the 15-meter long oceanographic trimaran Mayflowerarrived in the port of Plymouth, Massachusetts, after an autonomous crossing of the Atlantic, it would be, according to its designers, the first boat of this size to achieve...
Facial recognition systems raise questions about data protection issues and the risks of infringing on personal freedoms, and many NGOs, such as Amnesty International, are calling for an end to their use. In late July, New York Supreme Court Justice Laurence Love ruled in favor o...
Transforming 2D images into 3D scenes is the subject of much research, Nvidia Research recently presented Instant NeRf, an AI model capable of doing this very quickly, various software are offered for free for this purpose on the Internet. Researchers at Stanford University and N...
In collaboration with Virtual Incision, a robotics company, engineers at the University of Nebraska have developed MIRA, a small remote-controlled surgical robot that can perform surgery remotely. NASA plans to send it to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024 to conduct a...
The France 2030 plan aims to support the emergence of talent and accelerate the adaptation of training to the skills needs of new sectors and professions of the future. This is the framework for the “Skills and Professions of the Future” call for expressions of intere...
On August 4, Deutsche Telekom, a global leader in integrated telecommunications, announced that its subsidiary T-Systems will partner with China’s Envision Digital, a leading global provider of AIoT software for Net Zero solutions, to enable German retailers to reduce their...
Télécom Paris, a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom and a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, trains general digital engineers. It recently published a survey to measure the rate of integration into the job market of its graduates from the classes of 2019, 2...
Human resources (HR) plays an important role in organizations. In Canada, the College of Certified Human Resources Professionals (CHRP) conducted a web-based survey of 304 Certified Human Resources and Industrial Relations Professionals (CHIRP) working in business and found that ...
The European research project HosmartAI aims to provide Europe with a strong, efficient, sustainable and resilient healthcare system, benefiting from the AI capabilities of European technology players to generate impact. To this end, a common open integration platform with the ne...
Intensive care units (ICUs) provide continuity of care and continuous monitoring for critically ill patients. A team of researchers from Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine conducted research to investigate the predictive accuracy of mortality and length of stay of patie...
The Open for Good Alliance, as part of UNESCO’s Global Judicial Education Initiative, which has trained more than 23,000 judicial operators since 2014, hosted the “Webinar on Open AI and Data in Law and Justice Systems.” More than 100 judges, lawyers, government...
The Pôle d’Expertise de la Régulation Numérique (PEReN), a national service created on August 31, 2020, recently submitted its first activity report for the year 2021 to its supervisory ministers, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sover...
Seawater has a pH of about 8.2, although it can vary between 7.5 and 8.5 depending on local salinity, and is estimated to have declined on average by 0.1 since the industrial era. This downward trend associated with increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere is a matter of concern b...
Ganymed Robotics, a developer of computer vision software and robotic technologies dedicated to orthopedic surgery, announced in early July that it had raised €21M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by Cathay Health, with the participation of Crédit Mutuel Innovatio...
The Kavango-Zambezi transboundary conservation area was created to protect wildlife, particularly elephants, from poaching. It has fully succeeded in doing so, as it now has 250,000 elephants, or more than half of the total population of these pachyderms on the continent, estimat...
If there is one digital activity that consumes a lot of energy, is time consuming and has high costs, it is deep learning. An approach based on analog deep learning is both less energy intensive and faster. A multidisciplinary team at MIT has been working to create programmable p...
On July 28, 2CRSI, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance energy-efficient IT solutions, announced that one of its companies, Boston Limited, had won a contract worth 3.5 million pounds, or 4,179,700 euros. However, the group did not reveal the identity of the company wi...
The European Commission published on July 28 the data provided by the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) for 2022, which aims to measure the progress made in EU member states in the digital field. According to the report, only 54% of Europeans have “basic digital skil...
Launched last November 19, the 5-year LaborIA program, financed by the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Integration and operated by Matrice, an institute for technological and social innovation, has been joined by Inria. Its mission is to ” better understand artificial int...
The sector programs of the French Tech Mission aim to support start-ups positioned in sectors identified as strategic in the framework of France 2030. After Green20 and Agri20, the third French Tech DeepNum20 sector program is aimed at French start-ups operating in the digital se...
Since 2016, the Beninese government has aimed to make Benin the digital services hub of West Africa. On July 25, Webb Fontaine, a leading provider of advanced and innovative solutions to serve government and customs based in Dubai, announced that Benin has opted for its Customs W...
On July 25, the Luxembourg Ministry of Economy announced the launch of a joint call for projects, in partnership with the National Research Fund (FNR) and Luxinnovation, open to companies and research institutions wishing to leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities ...
The UMR 1190 or Translational Diabetes Research Laboratory is a joint research unit of the University of Lille, Inserm, the Lille University Hospital and the Pasteur Institute of Lille. The unit focuses on translational research on diabetes and in particular on human islet transp...
Vodafone, a British telecommunications company, and Google Cloud have signed a six-year strategic partnership in May 2021. The two companies recently announced an agreement to deploy the AI and ML platform “AI Booster”, jointly created, it will bring predictive capabi...
The UK Government has made no secret of its intention to move away from the GDPR since leaving the EU, hoping to establish a more flexible regulation. While the EU only allows text and data mining for scientific research, which the author can monetize if they wish, the UK Intelle...
Solera, a provider of integrated software, data and services for vehicle and fleet lifecycle management, recently released a study on the impact of AI in the claims management and repair journey. In partnership with research firm Coleman Parkes, Solera surveyed more than 2,000 co...
A financial audit allows you to make a detailed assessment of the financial accounts of a company, and the largest companies are required to do one every year. AI, with its great computing power, can be a very useful tool for the auditor’s job. The Master CARF (Control Audi...
Accenture, a global consulting firm, announced on July 21 that it has reached an agreement to acquire Eclipse Automation, a Canadian provider of custom robotics and automation technologies headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. According to Accenture, the acquisition will e...
GPT-3 is a language generator developed by Open AI . Two of the company’s researchers, Almira Osmanovic Thunström and Steinn Steingrimsson, instructed him to “write an academic paper in 500 words on GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the textR...
The European Defence Fund (EDF) provides financial support to defence projects developed jointly at EU level. In June 2021, the European Commission adopted the first EDF annual work programme and published a first series of 23 calls for proposals. Within this framework, 61 collab...
Managed by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, on behalf of the State, the Personal Training Account (CPF) allows any active person, from the moment they enter the job market until their retirement, to acquire training rights that can be mobilized throughout their professional li...
François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, introduced a new bill last June to reform the Canadian Digital Charter, strengthen consumer privacy protection and establish clear rules to ensure fair competition in the online marketplace....
Doctors are increasingly turning to electronic records for information to guide them on the best treatment for their patients. To help them do this more quickly, researchers from MIT, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research, physicians and medical experts, have developed machine ...
The 2022 edition of the Avignon Festival began on July 7 and will end on Tuesday 26, while the Off Festival will continue until Saturday 30 July. Despite the heat and the threat of Covid 19, this festival of live performance was a great success. The Grenier à sel, meanwhile, host...
RISE is a CNRS program, and the fifteen or so start-ups that win in the various calls for projects benefit from customized support for a year, as well as inclusion in the CNRS Innovation network of experts and partners to structure and develop their project. Innatelogic’s p...
In January 2021, OPEN AI introduced DALL-E and then launched its second version last April. On July 20, it announced the availability of this AI system that creates realistic images and art from natural language description in beta. In the coming weeks, one million people on the ...
During her visit to the Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation (MaCI) on the UGA campus in Grenoble in early July, Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research, presented the 17 winners of the second wave of the call for projects “ExcellenceS in all ...
Preserving biodiversity is a major scientific and societal challenge to meet the challenges posed by climate change and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A team of researchers, including ecologist Nicolas Mouquet from the Laboratoire Biodivers...
Faced with the resurgence of augmented cameras in public spaces and the ethical or legal problems that these devices pose, the CNIL, after various works on the issue, published on January 14, a “Draft position on the conditions of deployment of so-called “smart”...
For AIs, board games are great learning grounds, which has allowed them to beat humans at Go, chess, poker, backgammon… Stratego is one of the board games that AI has yet to master, researchers at Deepmind AI present “DeepNash,” an autonomous agent trained with ...
When we do a search on the Internet, the search engine very often suggests the site of the community encyclopedia Wikipedia. It contains about 6.5 million articles by volunteer contributors, but how can we know if these are reliable, even though the sources of the articles are ci...
The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions aim to foster excellence in the training, mobility and career development of researchers by funding research training projects. The MSCA COFUND 2021 call for projects, which closed last February, was launched to stimulate regional, national and ...
A few weeks ago, François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the launch of the second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy. This second phase, which is expected to benefit from an investment of more tha...
Since it first appeared in the field of sports, artificial intelligence has become more and more important and plays an important role at many levels: recruitment, training, performance analysis, games, injury prevention… As part of its “Launchpad” program, the ...
The Mozilla Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. In 2017, it launched an open source initiative, “The Internet Health Report,” to document and analyze the health of the Internet based on various...
EuraTechnologies, France’s leading start-up incubator and gas pedal, has announced a €24 million fundraising round with the Mulliez Family Association and Entreprises et Cités (via ECTech) among other private investors. All the historical shareholders: the European Metropol...
Despite constant movements of the body, head or eyes, our visual perception of the objects around us remains stable even though the physical information hitting our retinas is constantly changing. Scientists at the RIKEN Institute in Japan have looked at all the unnoticed eye mov...
The impact of information technology (IT) on health care so far has been evolutionary but not revolutionary, according to a paper by an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The study finds that IT has reduced costs and improved patient care, but only mode...
At the beginning of July, the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) announced the industrialization phase of the ARTEMIS.IA project (Architecture de Traitement et d’Exploitation Massive de l’Information Multi-Sources et d’Intelligence Artificielle). Led by the...
The symptoms of psoriatic arthritis are nonspecific, similar to those of other forms of chronic inflammatory rheumatism. However, early diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis can not only relieve pain but also prevent irreversible stiffness. Israeli researchers have developed PredictAI...
Microelectronics made its appearance in the 1960s with the arrival of semiconductors and the transistor. The CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) was one of the pioneers of this industrial sector, notably with the creation of CEA-Leti (Labora...
While the European Commission is working on a draft legal framework for artificial intelligence systems, the French Human Rights Defender Claire Hédon is calling for special attention to be paid to discrimination resulting from algorithmic processing. According to the authority, ...
The word algae evokes the sea, yet there are also terrestrial algae and they can be found in deserts, peat bogs and on the top of mountains… Vincent Jassey from the Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement (CNRS, Toulouse INP, UT3 Paul Sabatier) and his team have...
Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL), a combination of RL and deep learning, is a common approach for learning robots in simulated environments. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, took advantage of recent developments in the “Dreamer” world model ...
On January 10, 2019, the European Commission launched the AI4EU (Artificial Intelligence for the European Union) project aiming to boost Europe’s technological and industrial capacity, strengthen its industrial competitiveness and accelerate the adoption of AI across its ec...
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