Science Bar: “Artificial Intelligence: Smarter Than the Human 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 field of study aimed at enabling machines to perform tasks that humans carry out 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 access to massive computing power.
Although computers operate differently from the human mind in many ways, they strive to emulate it—or even match it—which is one of the major challenges of artificial intelligence.
AI is changing the world—and doing so at breakneck speed. But just how much can it transform our lives and disrupt 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), and 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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