Artificial intelligence

Whether they are games of strategy or chance, games are a privileged training ground for algorithms. Illustration of the irresistible march of computer science progress, the recent victory of a computer over a human champion at the game of go should not, however, deceive: the challenge is not merely to make the machine win, but above all to explore new avenues. It is with this logic that a private laboratory relies on bridge to develop an artificial intelligence capable not only of winning, but above all of explaining what it does. An approach that brings back into the spotlight the simulation of human behavior, neglected in recent years in favor of the exploitation of massive data.

Fed by concepts that borrow from formal logic as well as probability theory, AI is a vast construction site that is preparing a significant part of our future. Mathematics plays, and will play, a key role in it. All sectors are concerned, from logic to neural networks, from probability to statistics… It even exploits the algebraic properties of rational functions. It falls to the actors in the mathematical world to contribute to enlightening citizens about the issues of this new transformation.

Symbols of the transformation to expect in our daily lives, embodiment of science-fiction dreams, speaking machines are only one of the facets of AI's penetration into increasingly varied domains. New learning methods, advice for playing (including on the stock market), translations, decision support, diagnostics, forecasts... New possibilities are available to humans to continuously increase their skills. What future for this essential relationship between interconnected humans and machines?