Section: Dissemination

Popularization

E. Dupoux talked in two general public conferences on speech recognition, one organised par France is AI (oct 17, 2017) and the other by Paris Sciences& Data (dec 7, 2017). The public was composed of entrepreneurs in machine learning. He also gave a training course in speech and language technology organised by the Institut de l'Ecole Normale (june 21) aimed at information technology professionals. He gave three interview on the limits of deep learning in general public outlets (Le Monde, La Recherche (http://www.larecherche.fr/lintelligence-artificielle-a-lassaut-des-labos), Usine Nouvelle).

N. Zeghidour did a high level presentation of AI to 30 students and 8 teachers from Sciences-Po and Ecole 42 during the Policy Innovation Lab (http://www.sciencespo.fr/public/en/policy-lab/public-policy-incubator) following the visit of Facebook's COO. He has been a Mentor (technical advisor) for 9 European start-ups during a pitching event for the IBM Watson AI Xprize (https://ai.xprize.org/). He animated a booth on AI at the Platform Meetup Paris of Facebook. He gave an interview to Libération included in a 100 page special issue on AI (http://www.liberation.fr/voyage-au-coeur-de-lIA/2017/12/20/en-kiosque-notre-hors-serie-voyage-au-coeur-de-l-ia_1617896). He taught a class on Speech Recognition as part of the Facebook AI Masterclass, a class for developers located at Ecole 42 and broadcasted in developer circles over 25 cities of Europe, Middle-Est and Africa with  850 people attending, followed by a live Q&A session with several of these cities over video-conference.