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Abstract AI has already had multiple impacts on mathematics, from working collaboratively with human mathematicians by suggesting conjectures or performing smarter searches, to producing entire proofs unaided. I'll discuss the current limits of AI and …

Abstract The excellence of a surgeon, or more generally of an interventional physician, is not simply a matter of intellectual ability to make the right diagnosis or choose the right therapeutic strategy ; it also rests on the physician's ability to …

Abstract From the very beginning, with the emergence of the digital computer during the Second World War, artificial intelligence has almost always been seen as a simulation of the human mind. Yet one of the most powerful models of human intelligence in …

Abstract This talk explores the growing role of machine learning in contemporary musical creation, at the crossroads of artistic intuition and mathematical formalization. Drawing on my work on computational creativity, assisted orchestration and …

Abstract In contrast to comparisons between human minds and computing machines, I propose to consider the " artificial intelligence " as a " intellectual technology ", which shapes and deforms our minds. If the digital revolution constitutes a mutation …

Abstract AI techniques were introduced long ago in the field of government and regulation, and are now being deployed at high speed in all branches of law, considerably transforming the tools and logic of administrative and judicial action. This …

Abstract Jules Oppert, appointed to the first chair of Assyrian philology and archaeology at the Collège de France, contributed indirectly to the establishment of the library of the Institut d'Assyriologie. Charles Fossey, his disciple and heir, stated in …

Abstract Although Paris in the age of Oppert, with her Collège de France, École Pratique des Hautes Études, École des Langues Orientales Vivantes, École du Louvre, and Sorbonne, not to mention her Catholic and Jewish institutes; as well as her great …

Abstract In the last quarter of the 19th  century and the first years of the 20th , the destinies of two major figures in French Egyptology and Assyriology regularly crossed paths. Egyptologist Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) entered the Collège de France at a …

Abstract A 19th-century French magistrate, Joachim Ménant took an early interest in the work of Jules Oppert, before making his own original contributions to Assyriology. Born in Cherbourg on April 16, 1820, he studied law at the University of Caen before …

Abstract Born in Hamburg in 1825, Jules Oppert left his hometown at an early age for Heidelberg, then Bonn, where he studied law and oriental philosophy. In 1847, at the age of 22 , he left Germany, where his Jewish origins prevented him from pursuing the …

Abstract The British Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) was a Francophile, as his autobiography shows. His passive correspondence, preserved in Oxford and still largely unpublished, confirms this. It includes letters from such …

Abstract The correspondence of Jules Oppert preserved at the Institut de France does not form a single unit, but is made up of several batches of letters received by his correspondents, notably Jules Mohl (1800-1876), Félicien de Saulcy (1807-1880), …