founder & president, Novaquark

Jean-Christophe Baillie is founder and president of Novaquark, a Paris-based virtual reality startup developing Dual Universe, a next-generation online world where participants will be able to create entire civilizations through fully emergent gameplay. A graduate from the École Polytechnique in Paris, Baillie received a PhD in AI from Paris IV University and founded the Cognitive Robotics Lab at ENSTA ParisTech and, later, Gostai, a robotics company acquired by the Aldebaran/SoftBank Group in 2012.

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  Science&Technology / 2016-03-28

  Why AlphaGo Is Not AI

  Jean-Christophe Baillie / founder & president, Novaquark

  Culture is the essential catalyst of intelligence and an AI without the capability to interact culturally would be nothing more than an academic curiosity. However, culture can not be hand coded into a machine; it must be the result of a l…