Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Articles and contents

• F. Alexandre published an article about AI and neuroscience in The Conversation https://theconversation.com/de-quelles-facons-lintelligence-artificielle-se-sert-elle-des-neurosciences-124402

• N. Rougier published article: Pourquoi votre chat est nul aux échecs et pourtant plus intelligent qu’une IA, The Conversation (FR); article: Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI, The Conversation (US); Interview: Et le cerveau dans tout ça ? U magazine (Univ. Bordeaux)

Education

F. Alexandre: A lesson about AI (2 hours) and an unplugged activity about learning and memory (1 hour) given to a high-school class of 2nd on november 14th in Dax for the "1 scientist 1 class : Chiche !" MENJ program.

N. Rougier: Science outreach day at the Montendre high-school on unplugged AI (Montendre, France)

Several people in the team (F. Alexandre, T. Firmo-Drumond, N. Rougier, T. Vieville) participated (talks and demonstrations) to the Day “Activities for teaching AI” organized between Inria Bordeaux and LINE laboratory in Sciences of Education in Nice, June 21st;

Interventions

F. Alexandre:

• Intervention at the annual conference of the Bishops of France (Lourdes, April 2nd), with a conference (“What can medicine expect from AI”) and the organization of a workshop on Robotics for AI;

• Participation to a round table discussion at the Robot Makers Day Festival, Talence, April 12th: “AI: threats and opportunities for our companies: what training for tomorrow's engineers?”

• conference to the ESME-Sudria School of Engineers, Bordeaux, May 21st: “Is the brain a good model of intelligence ?”

• Conference “Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence?”, at the “Université de tous les savoirs” in Saint Jean de Luz on November 13th http://www.utl-luz.fr/index_002.htm

• Conference: “What can we expect from AI ?”, in the special day “AI and me” organized on November 15-16 by the city of Pontonx-sur-Adour https://www.pontonx.fr/Pontonx-sur-l-Adour/Agenda-et-actualites/Toutes-les-actus-de-Pontonx/L-intelligence-artificielle

A. Garenne: intervention about “Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning” at a club of companies, Pessac, decembre 12

X. Hinaut:

• "Pint of Science" invited talk, Bordeaux, FR, May 2019.

• "Les petits mécanismes de l'IA", invited talk at the Library of "Le Haillan", FR, April 2019.

• Invited jury member of the world scale hackathon "Créathon", Poitiers, FR, May 2019.

• Invited talk at the Science Fest Day, Cap Sciences, Bordeaux, FR, Oct 2019.

N. Rougier:

• Reboot conference “Will robots dominate us ?” (Bordeaux, France)

• Discussion with the general public about science, fiction and AI at Cap-Sciences (Bordeaux, France)

Thierry Viéville is an active member of Femmes et Sciences, has been invited speaker at Un rêve pour les filles et les garçons : LA SCIENCE and is involved in dedicated science outreach actions [15].

Several people in the team (F. Alexandre, T. Firmo-Drumond, N. Rougier) participated to the “Trial of AI” on november 20, in the project “The controversy of Bordeaux Macropole” during the festival Facts, program Arts and Sciences of University of Bordeaux. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI4B4TteRmA and https://twitter.com/bdxmacropole

Intervention by A. Garenne and T. Firmo-Drumond at the inter-university seminar "artificial intelligence and clinical sense", Bordeaux, march 11-12

Creation of media or tools for science outreach

Thanks to fundings from the Bordeaux Museum of Science Cap Sciences (http://www.cap-sciences.net/) and from the Foundation Blaise Pascal (https://www.fondation-blaise-pascal.org/), we have designed a software tool to run small demonstrative scenarios, to help everyone discover the brain functions at the origin of our sensorimotor and vital cognitive behaviors (instinctive and motivated behavior, selection of embodied action, emotional decision-making, seat of self-awareness, etc.). This resource is for a wide audience to whom we can show scenarios, but also co-build multi-media resources to share methods and knowledge (participatory scientific mediation approach) and to discuss these topics. It is also at the disposal of scientific mediators (researchers and beyond) who wish to co-construct such resources, or to present research results involving the animation of anatomy of the nervous system as well as of users or authors of computer code who want to reuse shared technologies to derive other applications, in particular become familiar with the specification languages ​​(here JSON and markdown).