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Roche partners with Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute to drive digital transformation in the healthcare sector

Roche Canada presented the National Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CoE). It is the first collaborative organization of this nature to combine the expertise of the three national institutes that are part of CIFAR’s Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

Ile-de-France Region and Dassault Aviation launch the Paris Region Challenge AI for Industry 2020

The Ile-de-France Region and Dassault Aviation have launched the “Paris Region Challenge AI for Industry 2020”, an ambitious competition in the field of artificial intelligence. This 500,000 euro challenge follows on from the AI2021 artificial intelligence plan and th...

UNESCO brings experts together today to discuss the role of a global ethical framework in achieving beneficial AI

This Tuesday 24 November from 3:00 p.m. to 5:20 p.m., UNESCO is organizing two debates on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). Under the leadership of Yoshua Bengio, leading experts will exchange views on this subject. The high-level panel will be opened by UNESCO Director...

XPRIZE and Cognizant launch Pandemic Response Challenge to accelerate AI use

Faced with a health situation that remains difficult, XPRIZE and Cognizant have launched the Pandemic Response Challenge. The aim of this competition is to harness the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide decision makers, health officials and business leaders...

Prevision.io closes Series A with €6 million to accelerate the commercialization of its solution

French start-up Prevision.io has announced that it has closed its Series A with a €6 million fund raising. This round of financing will enable it to accelerate the marketing and sales of its App Exchange, orchestrated by Upfront Ventures, with the participation of the historical ...

Discover the two winners of the Unicancer Innovation Award for Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences

This week’s Unicancer Innovation Award Ceremony was held at the National Convention of Cancer Centres (NCCC). For its sixth edition, Unicancer focused on a single category: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Sciences. Two projects were rewarded: LIFEx carried by Christop...

The Huawei Young Talents programme was officially launched at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques.

Officially launched this week at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, the Huawei Young Talents programme aims to support the work in mathematics and theoretical physics of talented researchers at the beginning of their careers. An average of 7 postdoctoral fellowships wi...

Event: France Is AI on 16 November

France Is AI, one of the leading artificial intelligence events in France, organized by France Digitale and of which ActuIA is a partner, will be held this year on November 16th in digital format. Programme & Registration here. The event, which has become a regular feature in...

Intel Unveils “XPU Vision” with oneAPI and Intel Server GPU

Intel today announced key milestones in its journey to deliver a mix of architectures in a unified software experience, including the release of Intel® oneAPI Toolkits scheduled for December, as well as new software features as part of Intel’s approach to combining hardware...

What are the contours of the EU legislation envisaged by MEPs around artificial intelligence?

MEPs are currently working on legislation to be adopted around artificial intelligence (AI). Innovation, access to data, protection of citizens, ethics, research, legal, social and economic issues, the impacts of the future regulation are numerous and central for citizens, admini...

When artificial intelligence comes to nature’s rescue…

Devastating fires, global warming, irremediable melting of the Greenland ice cap, rising sea levels and temperatures, depletion of resources, disappearance of species, pollution-related diseases, scientists have been warning for years about the state of the planet. According to t...

SophI.A Summit : From November 18 to 20, a very high level edition in 100% digital

The 2020 edition of the SophI.A Summit will take place from the 18th to the 20th of November. Due to the health situation, it will take place this year in a 100% digital format. The program will be presented during 3 days in the form of Web TV, available from a streaming platform...

Digital or ecology, do we really have to choose? #LaREFnum20 goes 100% digital – Event on November 10th

For its sixth edition, the Université du numérique becomes LaREF numérique. This event follows in the footsteps of the Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France (La REF), in order to considerably strengthen this meeting for exchange and sharing, by giving the floor to influential pla...

University of Waterloo Researchers Introduce Less Than One-Shot Learning to Create Models on Limited Datasets

Ilia Sucholutsky and Matthias Schonlau, both researchers at the University of Waterloo, Canada, have developed a new method to make machine learning more effective, even with limited datasets. They worked on an algorithm capable of learning several concepts from the same image, a...

Researchers use deep learning and 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks to predict the severity of Covid-19

Researchers and doctors from Gustave Roussy, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, CentraleSupélec, Université de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, Inria and TheraPanacea worked on a study on the prediction of the gravity of Covid-19 using artificial intelligence (AI). Pub...

Customer Relationship Management: C3.ai, Microsoft and Adobe launch C3 AI CRM, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365

C3.ai, Microsoft and Adobe announced on October 27 the launch of C3 AI CRM, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365. It is their first enterprise-class Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. Based on AI, it has been specifically designed for each industry, integrates with the...

ANR unveils the 9 projects selected in the framework of the French-German-Japanese call for proposals

France, Germany and Japan have launched in 2019 the ANR-DFG-JST call for AI projects aimed at strengthening their research collaborations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Nine projects were finally selected under this call, co-funded by the French National Research A...

The Franco-German bilateral Call for Projects in Artificial Intelligence is open until December 21, 2020.

The Franco-German bilateral call for projects in artificial intelligence was opened on October 22nd and will close on December 21st 2020. Two different instruments are proposed by the call. By signing a joint declaration of intent on the creation of an “Artificial Intellige...

European Parliament paves the way for first set of rules on artificial intelligence

The European Parliament has adopted a first set of proposals to establish a regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union (EU). The objectives are to strike a balance between protecting citizens and supporting technological development, to establish a forward-l...

Business and AI: only 10% of companies would perceive a very significant financial impact according to a study

The BCG GAMMA, BCG Henderson Institute and MIT Sloan Management Review presented the 4th edition of their editor Expanding AI’s Impact With Organizational Learning. Surveyed more than 3,000 executives in 29 industries and 112 countries, it reveals that only 10% of companies...

Where to get the Artificial Intelligence magazine?

The magazine ActuIA N°2 of the last quarter of 2020 has just been published. It is available on newsstands throughout Metropolitan France. To find it in a newsstand nearby click here. Artificial Intelligence Magazine #2 is available on newsstands. In summary, inspiring meetings, ...

Focus on the WISeKey laboratory specialized in artificial intelligence of objects created in PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur)

WISeKey International Holding, a company specializing in the fields of cybersecurity and the Internet of Things (IoT), has launched its laboratory, located in Meyreuil, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. This new WISeKey center will specialize in Artificial Intelligence of Objects...

Replay SEPEM Industries: Artificial Intelligence and Maintenance 4.0 with a use case for EDF by Matthieu Jolens

The SEPEM Industries exhibition was held from September 29th to October 1st 2020 in Avignon with many conferences on the programme. Matthieu Jolens, founder of J.I. Conseil, spoke on the theme of Maintenance 4.0. His lecture was entitled “Artificial intelligence for stock p...

Replay: Conference “IA and Sustainable Development Objectives” of the UNESCO Chair IA-REL of the University of Nantes

Find the second part of this round table here. The UNESCO IA-REL Chair at the University of Nantes organized a “Day of IA Round Tables and Sustainable Development Goals” in September 2020 around three themes that are part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

Zoom on Hi! PARIS, the center dedicated to AI and Data Sciences of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and HEC Paris

Hi! PARIS was launched last September by HEC Paris and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris). This interdisciplinary research and teaching center is dedicated to AI and Data Sciences. Combining education, research and innovation, this first interdisciplinary and inter-in...

Industrial performance: Enedis and Alteia develop a platform for image analysis of the medium-voltage overhead power grid

Enedis and Alteia announced this week their partnership around an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Enedis aims to accelerate its digital transformation through the systematic use of visual and AI data for verification operations on its medium-voltage overhead network. Deplo...

SystemX launches the Cockpit and Bidirectional Assistant (CAB) project, an enhanced decision support for complex control systems.

IRT SystemX announced the launch of its collaborative R&D project Cockpit and Bidirectional Assistant (CAB). This is the second project of the “Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Engineering (AI2)” program launched on February 4, 2020. It brings together 4 manu...

Energy Transition: Focus on the tRees programme led by nam.R, being tested in the Hauts-de-France region

As part of the objectives set for carbon neutrality in 2050 and its economic recovery plan “France Relance”, France has announced the investment of 4 billion euros in the energy renovation of public buildings, part of which will be dedicated to educational establishme...

AI at work: 82% of employees worldwide prefer to turn to robots to preserve their mental health, according to an Oracle & Workplace Intelligence study.

Deeply marked by the global VIDOC-19 pandemic, the year 2020 is considered by employees to be the most stressful year in history. Anxiety, fatigue, negative repercussions on mental health but also on private life, artificial intelligence, robots, the future, these are the themes ...

The conference Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI: Developments, Uses and Social Issues is being held on October 13-14.

Sorbonne University, Laval University and the International Observatory on the societal impacts of AI and digital technologies (Obvia) are organizing on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October an interdisciplinary virtual conference on the developments, uses and social issues of AI. ...

IoT Week 2020 by CITC calls for pitcher open to startups until November 6th

This year, the IoT Week by CITC is organising its fifth edition in Lille and the Hauts-de-France region, with theme days dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The event will be held from 7 to 13 December next and the CITC – IoT Cluster has launched an unprecedented cal...

8 French startups and SMEs winners of the EUREKA call for projects – International Challenge COVID-19

Bpifrance today announced the winners of the Covid-19 International Challenge. Following the call for projects open from 15 April to 15 May 2020, via the intergovernmental EUREKA network, 8 French startups and SMEs have been selected: Actility, Adelis, Bio Logbook, FieldBox.ai, M...

A European approach to Artificial Intelligence: EIT Digital makes recommendations

EIT Digital presented its third report in its Policy Perspective series. It addresses how Europe should deal with artificial intelligence and provides economic and political decision-makers with a scenario-based impact assessment tool for AI policy making. The EIT Digital report ...

Replay – 1st Pierre Conference: City of Artificial Intelligence organized by the Alpes-Maritimes department and the EuropIA Institute

On Monday 14 September 2020, the third #IADATES took place, organised by the Alpes-Maritimes department and the EuropIA Institute. Entitled “1st Stone: City of Artificial Intelligence”, the aim of this conference was to discern the contours of the local AI ecosystem a...

reciTAL, a specialist in LPT, raises € 3.5 million from Breega

Paris, September 10, 2020 – reciTAL, an IA start-up specializing in Document Intelligence solutions, has raised €3.5 million in initial funding from the Breega investment fund. This financing will enable reciTAL to accelerate its development to become the reference platform...

AI and Customer Experience : Axys Consultants presents its Smart Customer Care Insight offer

Customer relations centres handle several million calls a year and the telephone remains the primary means of contacting a company (Customer service in the age of AI). These calls are recorded with the main objective of improving the customer experience and the performance of the...

AI magazine appoints scientific committee

The edition of the 2th issue of the magazine ActuIA to be published on 15 October was the occasion to set up its scientific committee. Composed of 8 women and 7 men, these professionals and researchers from different backgrounds and countries express all the richness of the Frenc...

Wave VI of the Innovation Competition – i-Nov open to SMEs and start-ups is launched with 8 themes

Financed by the Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir (PIA), the call for projects “Concours d’innovation – i-Nov” aims to select innovation projects with particularly strong potential for the French economy. The application for the label must b...

The CNIL reminds municipalities of their computer-assisted verbalisation process

More and more municipalities are equipping municipal police vehicles with automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems. However, the CNIL would like to point out that the use of this type of system is regulated and warns against the use of photographs. Demonstration of an a...

Dataiku Raises $100 Million to Strengthen its Position in the Enterprise AI Market

Paris, August 24, 2020 – Dataiku, publisher of a unified Data Science and Machine Learning platform, announces a new $100 million Series D financing led by Stripes, with a major investment by Tiger Global Management and the participation of existing investors Battery Ventur...

Cloud and digital transformation : Thales expands its ecosystem of technology partners

Thales has unveiled new partners to help companies accelerate, reduce cyber risks and secure digital transformation initiatives. The group, which notably invests in digital innovations (connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity), has integrated major techn...

Focus on the APRIORICS project of the IUCT-O Toulouse: AI and personalized medicine to fight against breast cancer

The APRIORICS project (Immunohistochemistry Enhanced Deep Learning for Breast Cancer Image Requalification) aims to use artificial intelligence to describe tumours as accurately as possible. Selected in the context of the Health Data Hub call for projects, it is being carried out...

Country focus: Webinar “Artificial intelligence, a tool for economic recovery in Tunisia? »

On 29 July, the Ministry of Industry and SMEs, in collaboration with the Innov’i – EU4Innovation project, organised a webinar bringing together experts from several sectors on the theme: “Artificial intelligence, an instrument for economic recovery in Tunisia? &...

The arXiv article corpus is now available on Kaggle

For more than 30 years, the arXiv article corpus has been providing the research community and the public with access to scientific articles in a wide variety of fields including computer science, artificial intelligence research, physics, mathematics, statistics, electrical engi...

Scikit-learn, SOFA, Coq, Pharo: Inria launches its Continuing Education Academy dedicated to open source software

At the end of July, Inria presented its new continuing education system. Focused on open source software, this structure will provide access to the big names in open source software, the results of research by the Inria teams and their partners. On the programme, Scikit-learn, SO...

Life & Soft and CEA partnership in bioinformatics, genomics, artificial intelligence and advanced imaging technologies

On August 4th, Life & Soft and CEA officially presented their collaboration agreement. Signed in April 2020 for a period of three years, this partnership in bioinformatics, genomics, artificial intelligence and cutting-edge imaging technologies aims to develop an unprecedente...

Machine learning: Oxford University and Atos to install the UK’s largest supercomputer

Atos and the University of Oxford have signed a four-year, £5 million contract for a new state-of-the-art supercomputer. Dedicated to deep learning and based on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPODTM architecture, it will enable UK academics and industry to advance research in machine learnin...

Replay: The “right” of robots, reality or abuse of language? with Nathalie Nevejans and Serge Tisseron

As part of his programme Matières à penser, Serge Tisseron received in 2018 Nathalie Nevejans, a lecturer in private law at the University of Artois, a specialist in the law and ethics of artificial intelligence and a member of the CNRS ethics committee (COMETS). Together, they h...

The European Economic and Social Committee delivers its Opinion on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence

At its plenary session on 16 July, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) delivered its opinion on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence presented by the European Commission last February. The EESC was keen to highlight several key points. Last February, the Europ...

Data, artificial intelligence and edge computing: Orange and Google Cloud announce a strategic partnership

Orange wants to accelerate its digital transformation and announces that it has signed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud. This agreement will notably enable the group to develop new cloud services, particularly in edge computing. It will also contribute to Orange’s ...

A team of researchers presents an artificial intelligence that differentiates between birds of the same species.

A team of scientists from CNRS/ University of Montpellier/ University Paul-Valéry-Montpellier/ IRD/ EPHE/ CIBIO at the University of Porto presented the results of their research on how computers can learn to differentiate individuals of the same bird species. Published on 27 Jul...

Smart city: the demand for smart cities linked to sustainable development and digital transition is increasing

In its report “Street Smart: Putting the citizen at the center of Smart City initiatives”, the Capgemini Research Institute studied how sustainable urban planning has become a part of the considerations of city dwellers. Concerns about pollution, sustainable developme...

UCAJEDI Innovation Program: Opening of the 2020 “Start-up DeepTech” call for projects

The Call for Projects 2020 “Start-up DeepTech” was officially opened by the UCA Jedi Innovation Program. It follows the implementation of actions 6.5 and 6.6 of the IDEX UCA Jedi project and aims to help projects for the creation of innovative companies called “...

User Experience: ABTasty closes $40 million Series C fundraising round

A nice announcement this weekend for ABTasty. The company reported that it has closed its Series C fundraising with a total of 40 million Series C round of financing, led by Crédit Mutuel Innovation and their historical investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge. The tot...

Storage Market Focus: OVHcloud acquires OpenIO

OVHcloud has announced the acquisition of the French company OpenIO in order to strengthen its Storage Object offering. The two entities want to work on a European alternative by focusing on their common values including reversibility, transparency and sovereignty. In just a few ...

DeepMind presents a solution for automatic generation of reinforcement learning algorithms

DeepMind researchers presented on July 17th in an article on Arxiv a study on reinforcement learning algorithms. Junhyuk Oh, Matteo Hessel, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Zhongwen Xu, Hado van Hasselt, Satinder Singh and David Silver worked on a solution for generating reinforcement lear...

AI-based customer interactions doubled in 2 years according to a Capgemini Research Institute report

The Capgemini Research Institute has published a new report entitled “The Art of Customer-Centric Artificial Intelligence: How organizations can unleash the full potential of AI in the customer experience”. In the publication, the experts consulted found that customer...

CNPEN publishes a watch bulletin on ethical issues related to digital tools in telemedicine and telecare in the context of COVID-19

The National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) published this week a third watch bulletin as part of its work to monitor the ethical issues related to the use of digital technology in the context of a health crisis. This new report focuses on the ethical issues related t...

Toulouse University Hospital and Collective Thinking win the Health Data Hub call for projects and the Grand Défi of the BPI

The Toulouse University Hospital and Collective Thinking, a French company specialising in artificial intelligence, are combining their respective expertise to understand the impact of the types of care on patient health. Their artificial intelligence will analyze the textual con...

Discover the 5 winners of the call for projects Innov’up Experimentation “AI & Education 2020-2021”.

Last April, the Île-de-France Region launched its call for projects Innov’up Expérimentation “IA & Education 2020-2021”. This week, the jury unveiled the 5 companies selected to test new solutions combining artificial intelligence and education at the Paul V...