Large language models (LLMs), in addition to being very energy intensive, can reproduce the biases and stereotypes acquired during their training. Microsoft researchers have developed open source tools and datasets to test content moderation systems: (De)ToxiGen and AdaTest. Thes...
As part of its Silicon Valley-based laboratory, NVIDIA has initiated work to simulate and fight fires with NVIDIA DGX and Omniverse systems. The goal of this research is to better understand wildfires and stop their spread. The research involves NVIDIA and Lockheed Martin, as wel...
Women in AI France invites you to the next WaiTALK, which will take place in person on June 16 at leboncoin in Paris. The topic will be “Mentoring for Women in AI Careers.” Mentoring allows women to be guided in their AI career, but also to benefit from methodological...
ServicePower, a major player in Field Service Management (FSM), announced at the end of May the availability of its solutions on the French market. With this new subsidiary in Paris, the company confirms its growth in Europe and its ambition to help players in the retail, insuran...
The Université Jean Monnet (UJM) and the University of Ottawa have been collaborating for several years. A team of researchers from the CERCRID (CEntre de Recherches CRItiques sur le Droit), at UJM, has recently entered into a scientific cooperation with the Centre de recherche e...
An estimated 38 million people worldwide are HIV positive. Detecting the disease early is important not only for the comfort of patients, but also to prevent the spread of the virus and to ensure that patients take their treatment continuously. Vantage Health Technologies and the...
CNRS and the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) have long cooperated in the field of nuclear safety. In 2008, they created a joint laboratory, MIST (Laboratoire de Micromécanique et Intégrité des Structures), to study the thermomechanical behavior of materi...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). World MS Day 2022 was held on May 30. To diagnose it, doctors use a painless magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the brain and/or spinal cord. Deep learningcould allow...
At the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, which took place from February 28 to April 1, Gerard Quinn submitted a report including a study on artificial intelligence and the rights of people with disabilities. According to him, if AI can present enormous assets for disabled...
Digital4Climate, an Agoria study conducted by Accenture, looks at the carbon reduction potential of digital technologies in the four most carbon-intensive sectors in Belgium: industry, construction, mobility and logistics, and energy. One of the conclusions is that the positive i...
Software Advice, a consulting, research and user feedback company on enterprise software applications, member of the Gartner network, surveyed 1,000 French people, aged 18 to 65, working full or part-time in a company with less than 250 employees, last November. The survey focuse...
TRIGO, a leading provider of inspection, consulting and quality engineering services to the transportation industry, owned by the Ardian investment fund, announced on May 6 the acquisition of SCORTEX, a French start-up specialized in AI applied to automated quality control. This ...
Prevention, monitoring and rapid intervention are major assets to fight against forest fires. The Moroccan National Agency for Water and Forests (ANEF), to protect the 9 million hectares of forest on its territory, has set up an action program for the prevention and control of fi...
At the “AI Village” held from May 17 to 20, Germany and France, which had launched the joint JPA “AI for Risk Prevention, Crisis Management and Resilience” on February 3, 2021, announced €17.5 million in funding for the five selected projects, RenovAIte, w...
Datacraft contest, come and test the digital escape game! datacraft is organizing a draw to give 10 companies the opportunity to test their new digital escape game, which aims to raise awareness of data and AI issues. You will have the choice between a personalized demo for your ...
In early May, G7 digital ministers, joined by Ukraine’s digital minister, met to discuss the urgent issue of cyber resilience of digital infrastructure in the context of Russia’s offensive against Ukraine. Following the meeting, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, ...
Current AI systems were created to focus on a specific task, generalist AI, which would be able to reason like a human being, perform various unrelated tasks, is currently the quest of many scientists. DeepMind published a paper on the arXiv site about Gato, a generalist agent, t...
Created in 2013 and endowed with a total of $100,000, the X-Grant Silicon Valley Prize rewards project carriers or entrepreneurs from the École Polytechnique’s entrepreneurial ecosystem each year. Jérôme Michon (X 2011), co-founder of InSpek, and Feng Yang (X 2001), co-foun...
While it had announced in August 2021 an investment of 175 billion euros over three years to position itself in the global race of semiconductors, but also on future markets such as robotics, AI and vaccine production, the South Korean conglomerate Samsung unveiled on May 24 a ne...
Interested in becoming a Cloud Data Engineer on Microsoft Azure? Find out everything you need to know in this guide. What is a Cloud Data Engineer? A Cloud Data Engineer combines software engineering and data science skills to design scalable Big Data infrastructures. They transf...
Companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence services, especially when it comes to automating internal processes or improving their customers’ experience. The strong development of AI now makes it a commodity. These functionalities can be found in several fields...
The Cannes Film Market, the commercial platform of the Festival, was created by Emile Natan in 1959 to allow film industry professionals (producers, distributors, exporters, importers) to meet in a dedicated place. It offers conferences, film selections and events where participa...
On May 23, Mark Zuckerberg announced that researchers from Meta’s AI Research Lab and the University of Twente’s Neuromechanical Modeling and Engineering Lab in the Netherlands, led by Professor Massimo Sartori, had collaborated to develop an open source framework cal...
AI for music is an exciting topic, and we devoted a feature to it in the latest issue of ActuIA, currently on sale in digital and paper versions, available at newsstands and by subscription(https://boutique.actuia.com). SoundCloud, a music streaming platform, announced in early M...
SATT CONECTUS, a technology transfer accelerator in Alsace, and the startup TEKIMPACT have signed an exclusive license for the worldwide exploitation of an innovative technology from a public research laboratory INSA/ICube (University of Strasbourg). This new Tekimpact software s...
Early, Autogrid, a pioneer in AI-based optimization for distributed energy resources (DER) with a mission to accelerate access to clean, reliable and affordable energy, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Schneider Electric, a global automation a...
In early May, Atos announced the launch of Atos Business Outcomes-as-a-Service ( Atos BOaaS ), a 5G, Edge and IoT offering developed jointly with Dell Technologies. Atos BOaaS leverages the benefits of Cloud-to-Edge and Cloud-to-Far-Edge architecture to extract business actionabl...
Minalogic, a digital technology cluster in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and Visiativ, a specialist in digital transformation and innovation for small and medium-sized businesses, announced a strategic partnership in early May with the aim of contributing to the development an...
Sometimes we receive advertisements about a product or a service when we have discussed it shortly before with friends or family quietly at home. We can wonder about this strange coincidence: would we be spied on by the voice assistant we own, by some applications on our smartpho...
It was at its annual “5G Summit” event in San Diego, California, that Qualcomm unveiled an expanded roadmap of advanced 5G and AI robotics solutions with the introduction of the Qualcomm Robotics RB6 platform and the Qualcomm RB5 AMR reference design. These latest adv...
For an autonomous car to drive safely, being able to predict the behavior of other road users is essential. A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s CSAIL, along with researchers at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsi...
On May 18, the SETI Institute announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is joining the Frontier Development Lab (FDL) program, a public-private partnership between the SETI Institute, NASA, USGS, Google Cloud, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Nvidia, Trillium Technologies, ESA, a...
Pôle emploi was one of the winners of the “Public Action 2022″ program for its project ” installing artificial intelligence within Pôle emploi as a lever to accelerate the return to sustainable employment”. It was in fact one of the first French public act...
The National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CNIA) is aimed at the entire AI research community. It aims to strengthen the links and interactions between the different sub-disciplines and disciplines using AI and also allows to share the latest advances in AI. This year, t...
Ctoutvert, a reservation management specialist for the Hôtellerie de Plein Air (HPA), designer of the online availability search and reservation system Secureholiday.net, to which it integrated in 2019, “Holly-D”, a quote-creating chatbot developed with Synapse Dévelo...
As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE) is organizing, with the support of the Hub France IA and Numeum, an event at the heart of the Global Industrie industrial trade show, in Paris Villepinte: The ̶...
Telaqua, a Marseille-based startup specializing in the management of agricultural and viticultural irrigation systems, announced on May 11 a €4M fundraising round to accelerate its commercial deployment and continue its R&D work. The round of financing was led by Demeter Inve...
On June 10, 2021, Sanofi, Capgemini, Generali and Orange announced the creation of Future4care, which aims to accelerate the development of European e-health solutions until they reach the market. A little less than a year after the launch of this initiative, Future4care inaugura...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced on May 18 that it is building its first facility in Europe designed to support the development of exascale-class supercomputers and intelligence systems. The new facility will accelerate customer deliveries and strengthen the supplier ec...
The scientific community of researchers in computer science and automation in Lille, which has been growing rapidly in recent years, has come together to form the “Colloquium Polaris”. Eight to ten times a year, researchers come to present their work. On May 19, Rémi ...
On May 17, two Toulouse-based institutes, the IRT Saint Exupéry and the IUCT-Oncopole, a European center of expertise in oncology, signed a partnership focused on artificial intelligence. The aim of this partnership is to pool cutting-edge skills around AI-based research projects...
SystemX, the Technological Research Institute (IRT) dedicated to digital systems engineering, announced on May 16 the implementation of “Tech Labs”, a new cooperation strategy focused on technology transfer. Since its creation in 2012, the IRT has been coordinating co...
Teams from I-Stem and Genethon, laboratories of the Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM-Telethon), have collaborated with the Belgian start-up Kantify, which specializes in the field of artificial intelligence, to demonstrate the efficacy of a pharmacological combina...
The “Ma thèse en 180 secondes” competition, inspired by the “Three minute thesis”, conceived at the University of Queensland in Australia, is organized in France by France Universités, the CNRS, and the University of Lyon. Doctoral students have three minu...
On May 10, CentraleSupélec and IRT SystemX announced the creation of the “CircularIT Alliance” to ” put the power of digital technology at the service of the environment and sustainable development. This collaboration, which is expected to last five years, aims ...
In November 2020, the Seine-Normandy Water Agency launched the call for innovation projects for water management, “Digital Transition and Circular Economy” to support local authorities, companies and associations involved in the protection of the resource and aquatic ...
The Haute Autorité de Santé, on November 19, 2021, declared that 10% of Covid-19 patients develop long covid, a syndrome recognized by the WHO in 2020. In November 2021, the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) put online RAFAEL, an interactive platform that allows them to get in...
Lung and bronchus cancer (LBC) is one of the most common causes of cancer death worldwide, accounting for 11.6% of all cancer deaths in 2018. In both France and the United States, it is the leading cause of cancer death, and while smoking plays a prominent role in the disease, po...
Implicity, a European leader in remote monitoring of implantable cardiac devices and remote patient care, announced at the end of April a €21 million Series A financing round from Crédit Mutuel Innovation and Bpifrance, as well as BNP Paribas Développement and historical investor...
Corals are marine animals living in symbiosis with algae, notably zooxanthella, which provide them with the food necessary for their growth. Unfortunately, coral reefs, very important for the marine ecosystem, are affected by global warming, pollution and overfishing. Saving them...
Intel, a semiconductor giant, is working on a new software platform for artificial intelligence model training for computer vision. The launch is part of the company’s business strategy to boost chip sales. Simplifying AI model training for computer vision Sonoma Creek is a...
It is estimated that for a tsunami to be generated by an earthquake, it must be of a strong magnitude, at least 6.5 on the Richter scale. A team of researchers from IRD, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Los Alamos National Laboratory and K...
On May 10 and 11, IBM’s Think Broadcast conference was held in Boston. This annual event, after two years of broadcasting in virtual form, this year physically hosted business leaders, industry experts, AI players who came to exchange with IBM experts around hybrid cloud, c...
Ian Goodfellow, director of machine learning at Apple, has reportedly decided to leave the firm. The Verge‘s Zoë Schiffer reports that his decision would be motivated by the giant’s back-to-work policy. Apple employees demonstrated during the COVID-19 health crisis th...
On May 13, the Hackathon on Artificial Intelligence will start at the Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris (ISEP). It is organized by the AI and Security Chair and the Big Data and AI for the Environment Chair, in partnership with the Gendarmerie Nationale, the United...
The AFRIF (Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l’Interprétation des Formes) awards each year its thesis prize. The objective of this award is to highlight and encourage the best doctoral work on these topics and to boost research in the field. The AFRIF 2021 the...
Cybersecurity is now a top priority in business. Cyber attacks are increasing and becoming more sophisticated, even though IT has become crucial. That’s why many organizations are setting up a Security Operations Center (SOC). A SOC 2 analyst certification course is a great...
Inaugurated at the end of February by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo, ARCAI, a new research center dedicated to artificial intelligence, is located at the University of Kintele in Brazzaville, the capital of the country. Funded by the ECA (Economic Commission for Afr...
Currently, although entrepreneurs are aware of the potential of artificial intelligence to increase their competitiveness, many are hesitant to take the plunge, doubting the reliability of AI solutions. The Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic System Design (IEM) aims to build tr...
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an organization within the U.S. Director’s Office, has a mission “to push the boundaries of science to develop solutions that enable the IC (Intelligence Community) to do its job better and more effectively...
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