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.
As machine learning systems become embedded in critical decisions, from finance to infrastructure, the need for trustworthy, interpretable predictions has never been greater. Aymeric Dieuleveut, Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning at École polytechnique and scientific co-director of the Hi! PARIS Center, believes the key lies not in the models themselves, but in how we communicate their uncertainty.