Science Bar “Artificial Intelligence: Stronger than the Brain?”

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


Artificial intelligence (AI) is the science whose goal is to enable machines to perform tasks that humans accomplish using their intelligence.
AI is already well established in most sectors of activity: healthcare, transportation, energy, finance, commerce, administration, etc. There is no limit to what it can do as long as it has sufficient data and enormous computing power.
Although computers differ from human intelligence in several ways, they are attempting to get closer to it, or even match it: this is one of the major challenges of artificial intelligence.
AI is changing the world at breakneck speed. But how far 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 strategy director of the start-up Tellmeplus – Predictive objects;
• Michel Chein, professor emeritus at the University of Montpellier, researcher in the Graphik team (CNRS – LIRMM – INRIA), member of the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters;
• Gina Devau, Doctor of Neuroscience, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science – University of Montpellier.

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