FCAI and HIIT represented in the AI Action Summit in Paris

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France arranged a high-level conference called the AI Action Summit in February 2025. The conference organizers wanted to concentrate on positive actions, instead of painting gloomy risk-centered views of the future. FCAI Director Sami Kaski, FCAI Vice-Director/HIIT Director Petri Myllymäki, and FCAI Manager/HIIT Vice-Director Patrik Floréen participated in the summit and its side events.
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From Thursday the 6th to Friday the 7th, a conference on AI, Science and Society took place in Palaiseau outside of Paris. The conference included high-level speakers, such as Michael Jordan, Wendy Hall, Yann LeCun, Bernhard Schölkopf and Yoshua Bengio. The conference pointed out that there is so much more to AI than the LLMs that are now popular in the AI discussion.

On Monday the 10th, the main conference took place in Grand Palais in Paris, with several ministers and other high-level participants from different organizations taking part. On Tuesday the 11th, the Finnish Embassy in Paris hosted a roundtable discussion, moderated by SITRA representatives, with Petri and Patrik attending. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo gave a speech here and Petri gave an introductory intervention. Here, it was also reminded that LLMs are often not the type of AI needed in industrial applications.

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Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo at the Embassy of Finland, Paris

More information about the Artificial Intelligence Summit can be found on the official website

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