UdeM, AI and physics: the French connection

Several Université de Montréal specialists in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science will be taking part in the coming days in various activities held in Paris, France on the occasion of two major world conferences: the AI Action Summit  and the Paris-Saclay "Choose Science" summit.

Among them:

• Tomorrow, Feb. 7, computer-science professor and Mila scientific director Yoshua Bengio will present the findings of the International AI Safety Report, which he chairs, at a plenary to be held at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, followed later by a roundtable discussion.

• On Monday, Feb. 10, law professor Catherine Régis will join speakers from IVADO, the University of Ottawa's AI + Society Initiative and others to present their report 'AI and Elections: A Global Call to Uphold Democracy' at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

• On Tuesday, Feb. 11, Régis will return to share her expertise in health law and policy in a panel discussion about 'Realizing the Transformative Power of AI in the Life Sciences: Priorities for Safety & Security,' at the École normale supérieure.

• On Wednesday, Feb. 12, Bengio will take the stage at the EDF (Éléctricité de France) Lab to answer the question 'What does the future hold for artificial intelligence in terms of regulation, ethics and challenges?'

• On Thursday, Feb. 13, also at the EDF, computer-science professor and quantum cryptography expert Gilles Brassard will join French physicist and Nobel Prize winner Alain Aspect to talk about 'Wave/corpuscle duality, entanglement, teleportation: when quantum theory collides with common sense.'