Macron appelle les industriels à “relocaliser” et embaucher des apprentis

Le chef de l’Etat, qui dévoilera jeudi un plan pour faire de la France un champion de l’intelligence artificielle (IA), a aussi rappelé la création prévue d’un fonds européen des innovations de rupture, pour accompagner les nouvelles technologies, dont l’IA. Il a aussi appelé tous les acteurs à se rallier sous … Plus de details

CMU and IW to host AI, robotics venture fair

Innovation Works and Carnegie Mellon University have joined forces for a first-time event to bring investors from around the world to Pittsburgh to be pitched by local startups in two of the region’s hottest tech sectors, confirmed Gary Glausser, IW’s chief investment officer. They are hosting an artificial … More details

AI Cardiologist Aces Its First Medical Exam

A neural network outperforms human cardiologists in a task involving heart scans Photo-illustration: Rima Arnaout Rima Arnaout wants to be clear: The AI she created to analyze heart scans, which easily outperformed human experts on its task, is not ready to replace cardiologists.  It was a limited task, she notes, just the first step in what a cardiologist does when evaluating an echocardiogram (the image produced by bouncing sound waves off the heart). “The best technique is still inside the head of the trained echocardiographer,” she says. But with experimental artificial intelligence systems making such rapid progress in the medical realm, particularly on tasks involving medical images, Arnaout does see the potential for big changes in her profession. And when her 10-year-old cousin expressed the desire to be a radiologist when she grows up, Arnaout had some clear advice: “I told her that she should learn to code,” she says Continue reading AI Cardiologist Aces Its First Medical Exam

IBM prévoit des développements technologiques révolutionnaires dans les cinq prochaines années

L’intelligence artificielle (AI), la chaîne de blocs (blockchain), le cryptage, les ordinateurs quantiques et les microscopes robotisés font partie des prévisions technologiques d’IBM pour les cinq années à venir. Mais au fait, les prévisions que la firme avait faites en 2012 se sont-elles vérifiées? Plus de details