What if your coach was always available, never tired, and capable of instantly analyzing your posture to help you move better, whether you’re recovering from an injury, learning a new dance move, or practicing the violin? For Gül Varol, chair in the 2025 cohort, this isn’t science fiction. It’s the ambition behind her research project: […]
What can millions of newspaper articles teach us about democracy, representation, or inequality? For Etienne Ollion, sociologist and Hi! PARIS chair recipient, the answer lies not only in the words themselves, but in the tools we use to read them. His project, Textual Politics, uses advances in natural language processing (NLP) to revisit core questions […]
Artificial intelligence has mastered language, vision, and even strategy games, but can it master mathematics? Amaury Hayat’s DESCARTES project explores one of the boldest frontiers in science: teaching machines not just to calculate, but to reason.