The IPAL laboratory plays a significant role in the DesCartes program, an initiative led by CNRS@CREATE, the first international subsidiary of CNRS based in Singapore. Launched at the end of 2021, this ambitious 5-year project aims to develop innovative hybrid AI for smart cities, facilitating optimal decision-making in complex urban systems. IPAL explores various themes within this program, including:

  • Explainable and reliable AI, which seeks to create understandable and secure AI models and systems, crucial in critical security systems.
  • AI and human-machine interaction (human-machine symbiosis, human augmentation, etc.), aiming to leverage synergies between AI and the system user through tailored and intelligent interfaces and technologies to enhance human cognition.
  • Natural language processing, focusing on the role of context in various application frameworks, such as multilingual information extraction on social networks or sentiment and emotion analysis.
  • Data science and its applications, as well as computational enhancement of AI through neuromorphic techniques.

Christophe Jouffrais (CNRS), director of IPAL and Wei Tsang Ooi (NUS), co-director of IPAL, are lead PI for the Work Package 4 of Descartes on Human AI collaboration.

Find more information about Descartes WP4 at this link: https://descartes.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/wp4-human-ai-collaboration/