Science Bar: “Artificial Intelligence: More Powerful Than the Brain?”

Thursday, March 15, 2018, from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Brasserie le Dôme – Montpellier
Free admission (subject to availability)


Artificial intelligence (AI) is the science whose goal is to enable a machine to perform tasks that humans accomplish using their intelligence.
AI is already widely used in most industries: healthcare, transportation, energy, finance, retail, government, and more. There are no limits to what it can do as long as it has enough data and enormous computing power.
Although the way a computer works differs from human intelligence in several ways, it strives to come closer to it—or even match it: this is one of the major challenges of artificial intelligence.
AI is changing the world—and doing so at a dizzying pace. But to what extent can it transform our lives and revolutionize our daily routines?
This science-society debate, which is part of the Brain Awareness Week, will be hosted by:

• Jean-Michel Cambot, co-founder and chief strategy officer of the startup Tellmeplus – Predictive Objects;
• Michel Chein, professor emeritus at the University of Montpellier, researcher with the Graphik team (CNRS – LIRMM – INRIA), member of the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters;
• Gina Devau, Ph.D. in neuroscience, associate professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Montpellier.

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