La vision artificielle rattrapée par la physique

Les deux professeurs d’informatique soulignent, dans leur Carte blanche au « Monde », que le développement de ce pilier de l’intelligence artificielle, dont les applications nécessitent une extrême précision, oblige à mobiliser des alternatives à l’IA générative moins coûteuses et sujettes aux hallucinations.

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/06/25/la-vision-artificielle-rattrapee-par-la-physique_6615859_1650684.html

Depuis quarante ans, on nous promet des voitures automatiques. Les femmes et les hommes se laisseront conduire par la machine et pourront ainsi penser à autre chose – ou ne plus penser à rien. Mais dans ce monde à venir, faut-il vraiment laisser le volant à la technique ?

Ce documentaire “Pilotes automatiques” fait partie d’une série “Ecce Robots” de 4 épisodes proposée par Florent Muller, Frédéric Capron et Gaël Pouvreau.

A visionner ci-dessous :

https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-science/ecce-robots/7286714-pilotes-automatiques.html

The second call for project for the Sophie Germain programme of the French Embassy in the United Kingdom

On the 29th of February 2024, the Franco-British Joint Committee for Science and Technology was held in London. The French and British governments agreed to provide funding for joint research projects on the energy transition and hydrogen, space, AI, and research security.

On the 29th of February 2024, the Franco-British Joint Committee for Science and Technology was held in London. Following this high-level dialogue, a budget was made available, respectively by the French and British governments, to finance joint research projects on the following four themes, defined as priorities by both countries:

• The energy transition and hydrogen;
• Space and Earth observation;
• Artificial intelligence, including ethics;
• Research security.

The objective of this funding is to foster excellent scientific and technological collaboration between both countries. Therefore, this call is for Franco-British projects in one of the four priority topics. Applications should be submitted by the French teams. Since the funds in this Sophie Germain call are provided by the French government, only French researchers will receive them. British researchers will have to apply to the British call, which will be launched separately from this one.
The funding available for each project can go up to €50,000. Funding will be provided in a single transfer based on the budget proposal and in the few weeks following the end of the selection phase. The funding may be used in the year following allocation and after this period has lapsed.
Applications should be submitted to the address info@ambascience.co.uk by July 17, 2025. The announcement of the successful projects is planned the end of September.
The first call received 29 application, of which 13 were awarded funding.

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On June 12, 2025, the launch of PR[AI]RIE–PSAI marked a key moment for the future of artificial intelligence in France. Held at PariSanté Campus, the event brought together leading researchers, industry partners, students and innovators for a day rich in insights, exchanges and forward-looking perspectives.

On the program

• Introduction by Jean Ponce – École normale supérieure – PSL
• Opening by Samuel Bianchini, artist and lecturer-researcher at the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, with the presentation of RÉESPIRATION, an artistic project involving scientific and medical dimensions
• Two fascinating roundtables moderated by Olivier Cappé and Gabriel Peyré
  • AI & Health -> Emmanuel Bacry, Laura Cantini and Xavier Jouven
  • AI & Science -> Daniel Andler, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Yann LeCun and Stéphane Mallat
• Three inspiring testimonies collected by Jamal Atif from international researchers who have chosen France to conduct their work -> Michael Jordan, Bruno Loureiro and Dominik Peters
• And to conclude, the official inauguration with talks by:
  • Isabelle Ryl – Director of PR[AI]RIE-PSAI
  • Laurent Essioux – Institut Pasteur
  • Jean-Yves Berthou – Inria
  • Thomas Patzak – Paris Cité University
  • Antoine Petit – CNRS
  • El Mouhoub Mouhoud – PSL University

A Lively Ecosystem on Display

Throughout the evening, participants also had the opportunity to visit a demonstration space showcasing ongoing research projects, startup initiatives, and the work of young researchers from PR[AI]RIE–PSAI and its partner institutions. The atmosphere was both dynamic and collaborative, reflecting our core values: interdisciplinarity, innovation, and openness.

This project would not have seen the light of day without the collective commitment of our partners: PSL University, Paris Cité University, CNRS, Inria, and l’Institut Pasteur.
Google DeepMind | GE HealthCare | Hermès | Meta | Square Management
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A huge thank you to them for their trust, expertise, and commitment!
The PR[AI]RIE-PSAI adventure is only just beginning!

At the initiative of the magazine “Le Point”, an exceptional jury selected the 100 French scientists whose research is changing our lives. Congratulations to Damien Gratadour (Cnrs), Francesca Musiani (Cnrs) and Jean-Baptiste Masson (Avatar Medical) who are part of the 2025 list of inventors.

Read more: Le Point: 3 PRAIRIE-PSAI researchers in the list of inventors of the year !

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in France, with over 30,000 deaths annually. Immunotherapy, which stimulates the immune response against tumor cells, offers tremendous hope for combating the disease. Unfortunately, only about half of eligible patients respond to this treatment, and it remains challenging to identify responders in advance to administer the most appropriate therapy from the outset.

Three researchers from Pr[AI]rie — Emmanuel Barillot (Institut Curie-INSERM), Thomas Walter (Mines ParisTech), and Irène Buvat (INSERM-Institut Curie) — along with a pneumooncologist (Nicolas Girard, Institut Curie), have been working together to improve patient care. Their approach integrates all available information, including clinical data, MRI and CT imaging, anatomical pathology (tumor slice images), and genomics (gene mutations and expression).

The initial results, obtained during the PhD of Nicolas Captier (Institut Curie), a young PRAIRIE researcher, and published in the journal Nature Communications, combine molecular, cellular, tissue-level, and overall patient data into a statistical learning model to predict patient response to immunotherapy. The project is funded by ARC (via the SIGN’IT call for proposals) and the Pr[AI]rie Institute.

This global recognition highlights individuals whose research publications rank in the top 1% of citations by field and publication year on the Web of Science index.

France ranks 9th worldwide, with 1.8% of the 6,636 researchers listed, while the United States and China lead with 36.4% and 20.4%, respectively. Université Paris Cité tops the list of French institutions with 26 researchers featured, followed by Université Paris-Saclay (24), Sorbonne Université (10), and Aix-Marseille Université (8).

This recognition highlights her exceptional work in AI and machine learning. Schmid’s research, particularly in computer vision, continues to shape the future of artificial intelligence. Cordelia Schmid is a KIT alumna; she studied computer science at the former University of Karlsruhe from 1987 to 1992.

With the annually awarded Heinrich Hertz Guest Professorship, The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V. honor prominent figures from academia, industry, government or the arts for their scientific and cultural achievements and contributions.

For more details, visit the full article here.

The Casper project seeks to revolutionize how optimization algorithms are certified, ensuring they provide dependable and accurate solutions across various industries. The research of Adrien Taylor focuses on developing new methods to guarantee the performance of these algorithms, a critical need in fields like logistics, finance, and engineering, where errors can result in significant costs and risks.

With this funding, Adrien Taylor will explore techniques that systematize the certification process, creating algorithms that consistently meet rigorous performance standards. These advancements promise to equip industries with reliable tools for improved decision-making, reducing uncertainties and enhancing efficiency.

Learn more about the Casper project and its potential impact on industry innovation here.

Justin Carpenter has received an ERC grant to support his research on autonomous robots. Today, robotic systems work very well in factories because they evolve in highly controlled environments in which robots are required to perform the same task over and over again. However, getting these robots to interact with humans or complex environments remains impossible. Justin Carpentier aims to help robots move around and interact with their environments without human help, enhancing robot autonomy globally. The grant will allow him to explore new algorithms and machine-learning methods, which will help robots become more agile and adaptable.

This research could impact many industrial and societal domains, from manufacturing to healthcare. Read more here.

Their achievement this year follows a record-breaking performance in 2023, where they won 16 gold medals, surpassing their previous record from 2021. This brings their total to an incredible 48 gold medals since their debut at the Olympiad in 2020!

Cazenave and Cohen-Solal have excelled in a variety of games, including Amazons, Hex, Breakthrough, and Canadian Draughts, thanks to their unique AI system. What sets their approach apart is the innovative Deep Reinforcement Learning system they developed, which diverges from standard methods like AlphaZero. Their system excels in search algorithms and the generation of training data, leading to unprecedented success across many different games.

Their record-breaking performance is a milestone that will be difficult to surpass, setting a new standard for future competitors.

Full results from the Computer Olympiad are available here.

On July 11 Stéphane Mallat, Pr[AI]rie chair, has been awarded the prestigious title of “Officier de la Légion d’honneur” (Officer of the French Legion of Honor). The announcement recognizes Mallat’s groundbreaking contributions to the fields of wavelet theory, signal processing, and machine learning.

The Légion d’honneur, established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, is the highest French order of merit, awarded for excellent civil or military conduct. Mallat’s promotion to Officier underscores his exceptional achievements and the impact of his research on modern science and technology.

We are proud to announce that Pr[AI]rie chair Cordelia Schmid won the European Inventor Award 2024 in the “Research” category for her pioneering work with computers and AI. Congratulations!

Watch her story.

Watch replay from the award ceremony.

Get to know other winners.

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The European Inventor Award pays tribute to inventors worldwide. It celebrates those who transform their ideas into technological progress, economic growth or improvements to our daily lives. Launched in 2006, the Award gives inventors the recognition they deserve and, like any good competition, it acts as an incentive for others.

Their paper was entitled “When Your Cousin Has the Right Connections: Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction for Related Data-Imbalanced Languages”.

Niyati was an engineer in the ALMANaCH projet-team at Inria Paris for 8 months from October 2022 to June 2023, co-supervised as part of an Inria-DFKI collaboration by Benoît and Rachel for ALMAnaCH and Cristina and Josef at the DFKI in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Congratulations!

CLARA will allow creating the “Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in System Brain Research” in the Czech Republic, teaming up with a French and a German partner.

For France, the project is led by Olivier Colliot, Pr[AI]rie Chair holder and CNRS Research Director at the Paris Brain Institute. Other partners include the International Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Center (INDRC), the Czech Technical University, the Technical University of Ostrava, St. Anne’s University Hospital (Czech Republic) and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Germany). Other participants include Pr[AI]rie Chair holder Ninon Burgos and former Pr[AI]rie Chair holder Josef Sivic (now with Czech Technical University).

First contacts that led to this success were made during the Czech-French Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Prague on 12-13 September 2022.

“We are excited by this fundraising, opening a new phase of development for Descartes&Mauss. Our objectives in the coming months are to further develop our commercial footprint and our customer platform – with a big release in the coming weeks, stay tuned !” says Maurice N’diaye, Founder & CEO.

Pr[AI]rie congratulates Descartes & Mauss for this new wave of investment and wishes you great success on this new journey!

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Estblished in 2020, the mission of Sonio is to improve maternal and children’s health. It offers AI solution for prenatal screening and diagnosis.

This is an exciting growth opportunity that will allow to enhance maternal care worldwide. Congratulations and best of luck for this new chapter!

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The results have been announced by President at the Elysée Palace on 21 May.

About PR[AI]RIE-PSAI:

• The project is planned to be launched in September 2025 and it will build on the success of the PRAIRIE Institute, established in 2019.
• It aims to position France as a global leader in AI research, education, and innovation.
• It offers a comprehensive curriculum from undergraduate to doctoral studies, including innovative interdisciplinary programs.
• It focuses on cutting-edge research, increasing the number of AI-focused theses, and expanding into new disciplines, including Humanities and Arts.
• It promotes entrepreneurship with the goal of creating 50 new deep tech startups by 2030.

This is a major milestone fo AI Excellence in France!
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The prestigious Monte-Carlo Woman of the Year Awards recognise the achievements of remarkable women who have made a significant contribution to their communities in their respective fields. The award was created by journalist Cinzia Sgambati-Colman under the high patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco.

This year’s 12th edition of the Monte-Carlo International Women of the Year award was dedicated to AI and Cybersecurity. Cordelia Schmid, Pr[AI)rie chair, a pioneer in computer vision, received from H.S.H. Princess Stéphanie of Monaco the prize for her entire career. It was presented at the Monaco Women Forum platform on March 22nd. Congratulations!

The other winners are Joint Research Council scientists studying Quantum Technologies (Isabella Cerutti and Petra Scudo) and Louisette Lévy-Soussan Azzoaglio, the president of “Action Innocence Monaco”.

Read more about the award here.

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Clément Royer, Pr[AI]rie chair, an associate professor of computer science at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and a researcher in the MILES team at LAMSADE,  is one of the 5 winners of the call “International Emerging Actions 2023” in computer sciences from the CNRS. This is a call for international mobility and more specifically an initiative aimed at encouraging the exploration of new fields of research and partnerships on an international scale through short-term missions and the organization of working meetings around a shared scientific project. Clément Royer, was rewarded for his project BONUS- Blackbox Optimization with a Novel Use of Subspaces. The project, co-led by Lindon Roberts, lecturer at the University of Sydney, focuses in the use of randomness in algorithms without derivatives, particularly in the presence of constraints on the parameters, which corresponds to both theoretical challenges and practical considerations.

Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!