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Abstract During the 1950s and 1960s, European societies were undergoing a period of profound transformation. One aspect of this transformation was the fundamental role played by science, both as an explanatory principle of reality, and as a vehicle for …

Abstract Japan's postwar economic growth is often described as a miracle, and for good reason. Having suffered immense destruction during the Second World War-with roughly one quarter of its national wealth and production facilities lost-the country …

Abstract It has long been clear that narrative played a central role in the Norse understanding and negotiation of reality, in poetic tales of gods, supernatural beings, and heroes. We see its legacies in the extraordinary richness of the medieval …

Alain Papaux has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Samantha Besson. The conference will be held under an agreement signed with the University of Lausanne. The Lady with an Ermine (detail), Leonardo da Vinci, …

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Chair: Philippe Aghion 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 …

Abstract The second conference 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 …

Chair: Philippe Aghion Abstract Between structural opposition and reciprocal attraction, AI and culture maintain chaotic links. If (re)conciliation is necessary, the law must encourage the emergence of an ethical and competitive market, respecting the …

Chair: Philippe Aghion Abstract Information technology is in the midst of a revolution, where ubiquitous data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The term "intelligence" is used as a North Star for the …

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Chair: Xavier Leroy 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, …

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Chair: Xavier Leroy 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 …

Chairman : Patrick Boucheron Abstract French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous for having invented the metric intelligence scale, ancestor of the IQ, between 1904 and 1911. This paper will review the prior conceptual transformations that …

Abstract Over the past three years, negotiations under the parallel processes of the post-Cotonou agreements and the agreements reached between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU), initiated following the AU-EU Abidjan Summit in November …

Chair : Patrick Boucheron Abstract Over the course of the XIX th century, the concept of intelligence took on an increasingly important role in European anthropological and philosophical thought, establishing itself against competitors such as the mind …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract This article traces an artificial history of natural intelligence, arguing that, since the emergence of modern thought during the scientific revolution in Europe, the mind and its capacities have been apprehended as …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron 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 …