"If you want to do AI, hire devs."
Does this sentence ring a bell? It was the title of the sixth edition of Roberta and the advice of Renaud, CTO of Preligens for all those who want to start an AI project.
In this thirteenth edition, we focus on software development for all AI projects. Because in order to develop AI solutions that have an impact on the business, a true productive AI, you need to be able to deploy them, to put them into production. And that is the mission of the software teams.
This month, you will find a video interview with some of our dear and indispensable developers who will tell you about their daily lives and missions at Preligens. To keep an eye on international news, we share with you an article we wrote in Space News about the importance of information dominance in geointelligence.
We also give the floor to Karim Beguir, also a specialist in deep learning as the name of his startup Instadeep suggests, who has notably created an alert system for Covid-19 variants.
Finally, as in every edition, we propose to decipher a vocabulary word. This month, the term "fullstack", very often used among developers.
"Microsoft's new tool fixes the bugs in software code written by AI" by ZDNet
Microsoft reckons machine-generated code should be treated with a "mixture of optimism and caution" because programming can be automated with large language models, but the code also can't always be trusted.
These large pre-trained language models include OpenAI's Codex, Google's BERT natural language program and DeepMind's work on code generation.
"Dall-E 2: Why the AI image generator is a revolutionary invention" by Science Focus
Artificial intelligence has frequently gone head-to-head with humans in creative bouts. It can beat grandmasters at chess, create symphonies, pump out heart-felt poems, and now create detailed art from just a short, worded prompt.
The team over at OpenAI have recently created a powerful piece of software, able to produce a wide range of images in seconds, just from a string of words it is given.
The future of geointelligence is about information dominance, not data
The war in Ukraine has put the importance of information dominance on full display. Western media have made extensive use of commercial satellite imagery to document Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine. And while this imagery has played an important role in galvanizing world opinion against Russia, the United States and its allies nonetheless stand at a pivotal moment for information dominance. […]
Meet our developers
During the DevoXX 2022 conference in Paris, we interviewed our developers about their jobs, their daily lives and the technologies they use.
Meet Pascal - VP Software, Hélène - GIS developer and Jérémy - Front End developer.
Watch the full interview
Three questions to Karim Beguir
Karim Beguir, Co-founder & CEO of InstaDeep
How did you detect the Omicron virus before anyone else thanks to artificial intelligence?
Thanks to its genetic sequence! International databases have over 300,000 sequences of SARS-CoV-2 variants, which is a wealth of information for AI. Working with our colleagues at BioNTech who are experts in COVID-19, we were able to develop criteria to accurately estimate the immune evasion potential and infectious potential of a given variant. On the basis of these criteria, the Omicron virus sequence appeared to us, from the first day we obtained it, to be of serious concern.
Full stack refers to the entire set of software solutions and technologies applied to build a platform, website, or application. All application or website development projects have two basic parts —front-end (client-side) and back-end (server-side)— which are combined in full stack development.
A full stack developer is a polyvalent developer. His knowledge of the entire technical stack allows a fullstack developer to create a website or an application from A to Z. He is skilled in all areas: back-end, front-end, UX/UI, architecture... This agility makes him a highly sought-after profile.