Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our daily lives, influencing everything from how we interact with technology to how businesses operate. But where did it all begin? Let’s take a journey through the early days of AI, exploring the key milestones that have shaped this fascinating field.
Today, AI is a rapidly evolving field with applications in various domains, including healthcare, finance, transportation, and entertainment. From virtual assistants like me, Microsoft Copilot, to autonomous vehicles and systems, AI continues to transform our world in profound ways.
A Copilot self generated image when queried “Show me what you look like”. CP
Conclusion
The journey of AI from its early conceptual stages to its current state is a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance. While the field has faced numerous challenges and setbacks, the progress made over the past few decades has been remarkable. As we look to the future, the potential for AI to further revolutionize our lives remains immense.
Dalian, People’s Republic of China, June 2024 – The World Economic Forum announces today the publication of its annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report featuring technologies with the greatest potential to make a positive impact in the world in the next three to five years.
“Organizations make better choices when they understand the factors shaping the future. The report identifies technologies poised to significantly influence societies and economies,” said Jeremy Jurgens, Managing Director, World Economic Forum and Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “It also spotlights technologies with immense potential for revolutionizing connectivity, addressing the urgent challenges of climate change and driving innovation across various fields.”
“Drawing on the expertise of Frontiers’ Chief Field Editors worldwide brings our shared commitment to transformative science into clear focus, bringing insight and clarity to breakthrough technology that has the ability to change societies, economies, and lives for the better,” said Frederick Fenter, Chief Executive Editor, Frontiers. “This is open science in action and we are delighted to partner with the World Economic Forum in bringing these technologies to the attention of business, science and political leaders across the globe.”
The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 are:
AI for scientific discovery: While artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in research for many years, advances in deep learning, generative AI and foundation models are revolutionizing the scientific discovery process. AI will enable researchers to make unprecedented connections and advancements in understanding diseases, proposing new materials, and enhancing knowledge of the human body and mind.
Privacy-enhancing technologies: Protecting personal privacy while providing new opportunities for global data sharing and collaboration, “synthetic data” is set to transform how information is handled with powerful applications in health-related research.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: These innovative surfaces turn ordinary walls and surfaces into intelligent components for wireless communication while enhancing energy efficiency in wireless networks. They hold promise for numerous applications, from smart factories to vehicular networks.
High-altitude platform stations: Using aircraft, blimps and balloons, these systems can extend mobile network access to remote regions, helping bridge the digital divide for over 2.6 billion people worldwide.
Integrated sensing and communication: The advent of 6G networks facilitates simultaneous data collection (sensing) and transmission (communication). This enables environmental monitoring systems that help in smart agriculture, environmental conservation and urban planning. Integrated sensing and communication devices also promise to reduce energy and silicon consumption.
Immersive technology for the built world: Combining computing power with virtual and augmented reality, these technologies promise rapid improvements in infrastructure and daily systems. This technology allows designers and construction professionals to check for correspondence between physical and digital models, ensuring accuracy and safety and advancing sustainability.
Elastocalorics: As global temperatures rise, the need for cooling solutions is set to soar. Offering higher efficiency and lower energy use, elastocalorics release and absorb heat under mechanical stress, presenting a sustainable alternative to current technologies.
Carbon-capturing microbes: Engineered organisms convert emissions into valuable products like biofuels, providing a promising approach to mitigating climate change.
Alternative livestock feeds: protein feeds for livestock sourced from single-cell proteins, algae and food waste could offer a sustainable solution for the agricultural industry.
Genomics for transplants: The successful implantation of genetically engineered organs into a human marks a significant advancement in healthcare, offering hope to millions awaiting transplants.
About the Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report, now in its 12th edition, serves as a vital source of strategic intelligence for professionals. Drawing on insights from scientists, researchers and futurists, the report identifies 10 technologies poised to significantly influence societies and economies. In addition to promising major benefits to societies and economies, these emerging technologies must also be disruptive, attractive to investors and researchers, and expected to achieve considerable scale within five years.
This year’s edition introduced an innovative trend analysis methodology, incorporating academic literature, funding trends and patent filings, to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the selected technologies. The technologies featured in the report, produced in collaboration with Frontiers, were identified through a rigorous selection process involving over 300 world-leading academics and experts from the Forum’s Global Future Councils, the University and Research Network, the Frontiers network comprising over 2,000 chief editors worldwide from top institutions, and Mariette di Christina and Bernard Meyerson, Co-Chairs of the Emerging Technologies Steering Group.
“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.“
Founded on the values of pioneer pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a new partnership has formed between the leading Quebec AI research institute, Mila, and France’s IRT Saint Exupéry, which established a Montreal branch one year ago.
This partnership confirms the commitment shared by both parties to advance research in the field of intelligent systems, with a focus on embedded intelligence in critical systems, particularly related to travel (i.e., planes and cars) and healthcare (medical devices).
At the heart of the partnership are two key players in scientific and technological research who have joined forces to promote best practices and tackle the scientific challenges of artificial intelligence driven by industry needs and societal impacts.
Recognized worldwide for its numerous breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, Mila distinguishes itself both in calibre and in number of its researchers. Thanks to this partnership, Mila is enriched by an original model of collaboration, in which industry and academia will work together in a common space to solve scientific questions arising from industrial concerns. This collaborative model, tried and tested at IRT Saint Exupéry in France since 2013, has led to the creation of a French-Canadian research program, *DEEL, mobilizing 14 industrial companies and roughly 20 academic researchers in Toulouse, Montreal and Quebec City, including researchers from Mila. IRT Saint Exupéry now has access to a cooperative space on Mila’s premises. The proximity to Mila’s researchers and industrial partners encourages the development of multi-partner French-Canadian research programs.
If the Canadian branch of IRT Saint Exupéry was selected to integrate within Mila’s ecosystem, considered one of the best in the world for AI research and development, it is thanks to the partnership established two years ago with the Quebec Institute for data valorization IVADO, which was founded to foster AI partnership projects with industry. After the DEEL project, initiated jointly and now integrated into the Toulouse Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence “ANITI” of which it is the driving force, IRT Saint Exupéry and its Quebec partners are now developing new expertise in the field of confidence AI and decision support for critical systems, with applications for land, air and space mobility, but also for health and the environment.
YoshuaBengio, Scientific Director – Mila
“Mila‘s mission is to develop the understanding of intelligent systems in order to put them at the service of all humanity in an ethical, inspiring and sustainable way. More than 500 world-class researchers at the Institute focus on deep learning and neural networks that shape today’s intelligent systems. This partnership with IRT Saint Exupéry Canada broadens our horizons and our network.We are proud to make concrete through this partnership the commitments of collaboration between Canada and France in the field of artificial intelligence.“
Geneviève Fioraso, President – IRT Saint Exupéry
“I am convinced that collaborations with the researchers, engineers, laboratory students and partners of the Mila ecosystem in Montreal will be very stimulating for the IRT Saint Exupéry teams in Canada as well as in Toulouse.By working closely with the Mila Institute, we are going to accelerate our work and strengthen our expertise in AI, thus enhancing the reliability, safety and competitiveness of the fields concerned with critical and complex systems: air, space and ground transportation, medical devices and the environment.Ourlongstanding partnership with IVADO and CRIAQ in Quebec allows us today, alongside Mila, to achieve a new level of deep learning and understanding of intelligent systems.This new alliance with the French-speaking centre of excellence in AI, based on shared scientific and ethical values, also illustrates the willingness of the technological research institutes to open up internationally.“
Guillaume Gaudron, CEO – IRT Saint Exupéry Canada
“We are really excited to join Mila.Working in this privileged environment and close to the very best researchers in the field represents an unprecedented opportunity for the institute to showcase its skills and respond to the deep concerns raised by artificial intelligence.We are also pleased to be able to offer a very unique collaboration model, one which brings together different actors to address common, shared and open challenges.We are mobilizing artificial intelligence on future topics such as the quantum computer, the autonomous vehicle, medical applications (diagnosis of rare diseases), satellites, and more. These are all complex and compelling subjects that need to be supported by very high-level scientific research, and require the use of AI algorithms that are robust, reliable, justifiable and, in the future, certifiable.“
About Mila:
Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence which rallies 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning. Based in Montreal, Mila’s mission is to be a global pole for scientific advances that inspires innovation and the development of AI for the benefit of all. Mila, a non-profit organization, is recognized globally for its significant contributions to the field of deep learning, Mila has distinguished itself in the areas of language modelling, machine translation, object recognition and generative models. For the Silo, Diane Loth.
About IRT Saint Exupéry Canada (CRAN):
IRT Saint Exupéry Canada or CRAN (Centre de Recherche Aéro-Numérique) settled in Montreal in June 2019. With a specialization in areas of artificial intelligence, it brings together academia and industry through a recognized collaboration model to build multi-partner research programs within a French-Canadian framework.
IRT Saint Exupéry Canada was founded by IRT Saint Exupéry, a French research and innovation institute that is very involved in Franco-Quebec collaborations, particularly through the ambitious DEEL* research program with its partners IVADO and CRIAQ.
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« L’avenir tu n’as point à le prévoir mais à le permettre » … c’est sous la formule empruntée à Antoine de Saint-Exupéry que s’engage un nouveau partenariat entre le laboratoire d’excellence en intelligence artificielle Mila et l’IRT Saint Exupéry Canada installé à Montréal depuis un an. Ce partenariat confirme la volonté partagée par les deux parties de faire avancer la recherche en matière de systèmes intelligents, avec un focus sur l’intelligence embarquée dans les systèmes critiques, en particulier liés à la mobilité (avions, voitures) ou la santé (dispositifs médicaux).
L’IRT SAINT EXUPERY DANS LA PLATE-FORME MILA A MONTRÉAL : UN FORMIDABLE ACCÉLÉRATEUR POUR LES PROJETS D’IA
Au cœur du partenariat, ce sont deux acteurs de la recherche scientifique et technologique qui s’allient pour échanger des bonnes pratiques et adresser des défis scientifiques de l’intelligence artificielle motivés par des besoins industriels et les impacts sociétaux.
Reconnu mondialement pour ses nombreuses percées en intelligence artificielle, Mila se distingue tout autant par le niveau de ses chercheurs que par leur nombre. Grâce à ce partenariat, il s’enrichit d’un modèle de collaboration original, dans lequel industriels et académiques travaillent ensemble, en un lieu commun, pour résoudre des questions scientifiques issues de préoccupations industrielles. Ce modèle, expérimenté depuis 2013 à l’IRT Saint Exupéry en France, a conduit à la création d’un programme de recherche franco-canadien, DEEL*, mobilisant à Toulouse, Montréal et Québec 14 industriels et une vingtaine de chercheurs académiques parmi lesquels des chercheurs de Mila. L’IRT Saint Exupéry Canada a désormais accès à un espace coopératif dans les locaux de Mila, la proximité avec les chercheurs et les partenaires industriels de Mila favorisant le montage de programmes de recherche franco-canadiens multi partenariaux.
Si l’antenne canadienne de l’IRT Saint Exupéry a été choisie pour intégrer la plate-forme Mila, considérée comme l’une des meilleures au monde pour la recherche et le développement en intelligence artificielle, c’est bien grâce au partenariat noué il y a deux ans avec le centre de recherche québécois IVADO, Institut de la VAlorisation des DOnnées fondé pour développer des projets partenariaux en IA avec l’industrie. Après le projet DEEL, initié en commun et maintenant intégré à l’Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Intelligence Artificielle toulousain « ANITI » dont il est le moteur, l’IRT Saint Exupéry et ses partenaires québécois développent de nouvelles expertises dans le domaine de l’IA de confiance et d’aide à la décision pour les systèmes critiques, avec des applications pour les mobilités terrestres, aériennes et spatiales, mais aussi pour la santé et l’environnement.
Yoshua Bengio, Directeur scientifique – Mila
« Mila a pour vocation de développer la compréhension des systèmes intelligents pour les mettre au service de toute l’humanité de façon éthique, inspirante et durable. Au sein de l’institut, plus de 500 chercheurs d’excellence se concentrent sur l’apprentissage profond et les réseaux de neurones qui façonnent les systèmes intelligents actuels. Ce partenariat avec l’IRT Saint Exupéry Canada élargit notre horizon et notre réseau : nous sommes fiers de concrétiser par ce partenariat les engagements de collaboration entre le Canada et la France en matière d’intelligence artificielle. »
Geneviève Fioraso, Présidente – IRT Saint Exupéry
« Je suis convaincue que l’interaction avec les chercheurs, les ingénieurs, les étudiants des laboratoires et les partenaires de la plate-forme Mila à Montréal sera tout à fait stimulante pour les équipes de l’IRT Saint Exupéry au Canada comme à Toulouse. En nous rapprochant de l’Institut MILA, nous allons accélérer nos travaux et renforcer notre expertise en IA, au service de la fiabilité, la sûreté et la compétitivité des domaines concernés par les systèmes critiques et complexes : transports aériens, spatiaux, terrestres, dispositifs médicaux, environnement. Notre partenariat plus ancien avec IVADO et le CRIAQ au Québec nous permet aujourd’hui, au sein de MILA, de franchir une nouvelle étape dans l’apprentissage profond et la compréhension des systèmes intelligents. Le rapprochement avec ce pôle d’excellence francophone en IA, fondé sur des valeurs scientifiques et éthiques partagées, illustre également la volonté d’ouverture à l’international des Instituts de Recherche Technologique. »
Guillaume Gaudron, Directeur général – IRT Saint Exupéry Canada
« Nous sommes vraiment ravis de rejoindre le Mila. Travailler dans cet environnement privilégié et à proximité de chercheurs d’excellence représente une opportunité inédite pour l’institut d’exprimer ses compétences et de répondre à des préoccupations profondes posées par l’intelligence artificielle. Nous sommes également heureux de pouvoir proposer un modèle de collaboration assez unique, une capacité de réunir des acteurs différents autour de problématiques communes, partagées et ouvertes. Nous mobilisons l’intelligence artificielle sur des thématiques d’avenir comme l’ordinateur quantique, le véhicule autonome, les applications médicales (diagnostic de maladies rares), les satellites, etc. autant de sujets complexes, séduisants, ayant besoin de s’adosser à une recherche scientifique de très haut niveau, et nécessitant de s’appuyer sur des algorithmes d’IA robustes, sûrs de fonctionnement, explicables et, à l’avenir, certifiables.
À propos de Mila :
Fondé par le professeur Yoshua Bengio de l’Université de Montréal, Mila est un institut de recherche en intelligence artificielle qui rassemble aujourd’hui 500 chercheurs spécialisés dans le domaine de l’apprentissage profond et par renforcement. Basé à Montréal, Mila a pour mission d’être un pôle mondial d’avancées scientifiques qui inspire l’innovation et l’essor de l’IA au bénéfice de tous. Mila est un organisme à but non-lucratif reconnu mondialement pour ses importantes contributions au domaine de l’apprentissage profond, particulièrement dans les domaines de la modélisation du langage, de la traduction automatique, de la reconnaissance d’objets et des modèles génératifs.
À propos de l’IRT Saint Exupéry Canada (CRAN) :
L’IRT Saint Exupéry Canada ou CRAN (Centre de Recherche Aéro-Numérique) s’est installé à Montréal en juin 2019. Spécialisé dans les thématiques d’intelligence artificielle, il fédère académiques et industriels grâce à un modèle de collaboration reconnu pour construire avec eux des programmes de recherche multi-partenariale dans un cadre franco-canadien.
L’IRT Saint Exupéry Canada a été fondé par l’IRT Saint Exupéry, institut français de recherche et d’innovation très engagé dans les collaborations franco-québécoises en particulier au travers de l’ambitieux programme de recherche DEEL* avec ses partenaires IVADO et CRIAQ
