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Interview with conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen , followed by a short concert by musicians from the Orchestre de Paris . Moderator : Christian Thompson , director of the Orchestre de Paris. Abstract Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the world's most …

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 Artificial intelligence neural networks are trained to estimate answers to questions by statistical calculation. The accuracy of these answers, despite the explosion of the set of possibilities, shows that they exploit the underlying structure of …

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 carry …

Abstract Most works dealing with intelligence, whatever their author's profile, make a detour via the Greeks, albeit a brief one. The place of Greek philosophers -   those "   professionals of intelligence   "   - in European cultural baggage goes some …

Abstract Averroës was cursed in European history for his conception of a human intellect radically separate from bodies, eternal and unique for the entire species. It was seen as the ruin of personal thought, the end of the individual-subject. We want 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 The static form in which Norse mythology has come down to us belies its original, fluid and highly contextualised setting as spoken tales, and we thereby risk misunderstandings in their interpretation. Many of these stories concern what might be …

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 This lecture offers a reflection on the growing role of machine learning in contemporary music creation, at the intersection of artistic intuition and mathematical formalization. Drawing on my work in computational creativity, assisted …

Abstract The third lecture will focus on the evolution of the human diet. What have we evolved to eat and not eat, and why have humans become the most omnivorous species on the planet? What role did food processing play in the evolution of the human diet? …