Dès leur apparition en 2016, les deepfakes ont suscité des craintes en matière de manipulation et de fausses informations. On y est. Le 16 mars 2022, alors que les Russes envahissent l’Ukraine depuis près de trois semaines, le site de la chaîne de télévision Ukraine 24 est piraté : il diffuse un message vidéo du président … Read more
Time is elastic, especially in the metro. This is the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from Cornell University in New York after conducting an unprecedented experiment using virtual reality. For their study, published in the scientific journal Virtual reality on November 3, 2022, American researchers placed around forty subjects in a fictitious New … Read more
This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir – La Recherche n°910, dated December 2022. It is hard to believe, but it is now possible, almost literally, to read minds. To be precise, we would rather say “decode cognitive content in the brain “, but the results are there: images, words read or … Read more
Digital in the hospital is making great strides. Some algorithms are already able to better diagnose lung cancer or analyze a mammogram than a doctor. This technology promises immense advances in the future, provided certain challenges are met. Several players and analysts in the field, gathered during the round table “Digital, artificial intelligence, doctors and … Read more
Quel paradoxe ! “Les programmes des premiers ordinateurs ont été conçus et réalisés par des femmes, des mathématiciennes expertes en calcul numérique”, rappelle la biochimiste Zhanna Santybayeva (CNRS), membre de Femmes et Sciences, qui consacre son colloque annuel 2022 à la place des femmes dans les sciences du numérique, vendredi 18 novembre à Rennes (Centre … Read more
This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir – La Recherche n°908, dated October 2022. Is it a real image or produced by an algorithm? Regularly, the amazing progress of so-called artificial intelligences (AI) blurs a little more the border between reality and its imitation. The first months of 2022 have made it … Read more
Global health, the new challenge.This first edition of the Rencontres du Grand Est will take place in Strasbourg on November 25, 2022. This event organized by Science and Future – Research is free, open to all; registration is required on the official website www.lesrencontresanteglobale.fr. This registration opens the doors of the headquarters of the Grand … Read more
This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir – La Recherche n°908, dated October 2022. Under cover of protecting the Internet user, the giants of the Web are waging an unprecedented war to decide what information they can collect about them. Apple against Facebook first. Since May 2021, the first has integrated into … Read more
Outside, a soft summer sun warms the Pacific coast; California is preparing for another bright day. Inside, it is -273 degrees in places, to satisfy the impossible demands of quantum mechanics. A science where things can simultaneously exist, not exist, and be somewhere in between. Welcome to the depths of Google’s quantum artificial intelligence lab, … Read more
It’s hard to miss this private mansion that looks like a Loire castle, on Place du Général Catroux in Paris. The architecture contrasts a bit with the Haussmann atmosphere. It was the Hôtel Gaillard, residence of the banker Emile Gaillard (1821-1902) who had it built in 1882, taking the châteaux of Blois and Fontainebleau as … Read more