Thoughts on the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival (WAICF)
Few key takeaways from the conference.
The World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) is a unique event that aims to increase public awareness of artificial intelligence (AI). Launched by the EuropIA institute, the City of Cannes, and The Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, WAICF offers a broad selection of talks, informative workshops, and insightful panel discussions over the course of three days.
As someone who had the privilege of attending the 2nd edition of the festival, I can ensure that it provides an exceptional opportunity to meet people from all over the world, including researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate executives. It was interesting to gain insight into their perspectives on the current and future state of AI.
In this article, I would like to share my feedback on the most interesting talks I participated in.
I truly embrace the initiatives of raising awareness of the social impact that AI can have.
Please find below my takeaways.
Key takeaways:
1️⃣ Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta, highlights the fact that AI lacks common sense in language models and that reinforcement learning has limitations in the…