Artificial intelligence - Page 4

By means of this article we would like to present Paul Jorion's work on intelligent systems, and then open this presentation on neural networks, since these two parts are part of an ongoing common history, that of artificial intelligence, which is in its infancy, but already going through ruptures. Photo

Metropolis in 1927, The Space Odyssey in 1968, Star Wars in 1977... so many mythical films among many others in which robots were pure fiction. Today, that fiction becomes reality. Every day, new innovations are born: robots to perform open-heart surgery,

According to its etymology, the word "robot" refers to an anthropomorphic entity, as the word was first used to refer to a humanoid automaton in a play by the Czech Karel Čapek, RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots, created in 1921. But in recent years, the term

Conversational agents (English chatbots) have recently been in the news, including Microsoft's Tay. They take us back to an ancient tradition that, from the golem to science fiction, from Turing to robotic customer service, has generated all kinds of worries and fantasies. Chatbot dialogues with humans

Soseki Natsume is, for the Japanese, like a Dickens, a Proust or a Goethe for Westerners. Dead a century ago, Natsume will be resurrected as a robot android by teams of researchers in artificial intelligence from Nishogakusha University in Tokyo. His robot

The robots are coming. They fascinate us, they worry us, but they don't leave us indifferent. The Innorobo trade fair held last week in Paris for its sixth edition demonstrated just how effervescent this sector is. Two hundred exhibitors from all over the world and

Two years ago, when the adventure began, two students from the school of industrial biology in Cergy-Pontoise, came up with the idea of using robotics to interest a population whose attention is very difficult to capture. Ladislas de Toldi and Marine Couteau had a dream: to help exceptional children to live in

Robot stories, there's plenty of them today. The most recent, which have made the headlines, are those of the victory of Alphago, an artificial intelligence over humans, or that of Google, whose small bump is only the exception that confirms the rule of its conduct.

The remote-controlled robots sent into the bowels of Fukushima to try to repair the damage could not withstand the radioactive radiation. Their wiring was destroyed, resulting in immediate cybernetic death. These hyper-specialized robots, which take several years to build, were the last hope of removing the molten nuclear fuel.

Everybody's talking about it. The 1.5 billion users of the social network Facebook will be able to express their emotions through a palette of emotional icons, the "emojis", which complement the old like and thumbs up. With what appears to be a gadget, Facebook is equipping itself with a formidable weapon for not only knowing

Year in and year out, French farmers dump 30,000 tonnes of herbicides into their crops. The best known, probably because of its bad reputation, is Monsanto's Roundup. This practice is denounced by environmental associations and organic farmers who have been doing without it for a long time. However, for

A place of excellence for the transmission of knowledge in France, the Collège de France, this venerable institution created by Francis I, was making a special noise last Thursday. It hosted the first lesson of Yann Le Cun, the "God", as some people call him, of Artificial Intelligence, the boss of machine intelligence.

It is the scientific journal Nature that revealed at the end of January 2016 that a Google DeepMind algorithm managed to beat the European champion of the famous game of Go, Fan Hui. Artificial intelligence is taking a giant step forward: it is the first time that a machine beats a human at this level.

Since November 2014, cultural workshops introducing young autistic people to the manipulation of Nao, the small humanoid robot, have been set up by the Samothrace Psychotherapy Centre (Nantes University Hospital), Stereolux and the Robots! association in partnership with the Ecole Centrale de Nantes. They have initiated an unprecedented scientific experiment.

"I am wary of the contagion of machines" said Georges Duhamel. Or again, Isaac Asimov: "The robots will free us". So what should we think? Without us realizing it, we are really changing the world with robots driven by thought or the generalization of Big Data opening up to analysis.

Innorobo 2015: From digital to robotics, a continuum in the transformation of our daily lives from 1st to 3rd July in Lyon. The 2015 edition of Innorobo will focus on representing all robotics and the transversal dynamics of the industry. This 5th edition is organized around the six themes and

Le mercredi 15 avril dernier, l’hémicycle de l’Assemblée nationale était presque vide. Y était pourtant débattu l’un des volets les plus sensibles de la Loi sur le Renseignement, celui concernant la surveillance de l’Internet par des « boîtes noires », les algorithmes. Ceux-ci auront pour tâche de surveiller automatiquement les

This is not new, Japan is facing a major problem: its population is shrinking and aging at a rate never before seen in a developed country. In an attempt to counter this problem, Japan is relying on the development of robotics in particular,