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Montreal, June 20, 2023 — The 5th anniversary edition of MTL connect: Printemps numérique de Montréal will take place from October 10 to 13, 2023, at the NAD School (Montreal). This year, the goal will be to better understand the digital revolution and learn how to benefit from it, through the main theme COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. For this occasion, who better than Pierre Lévy, author of “L’intelligence collective : Pour une anthropologie du cyberespace“; to open the conference series?
Collective intelligence is the ability of a group to solve complex problems through the interactions between the individuals that make it up and the synergies that result. Each individual possesses a part of the knowledge, know-how, and solution. With digital technology, billions of individuals are interconnected at every moment, like billions of synapses of a single entity.
The theme COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE will help contribute to the transfer of expertise between different ecosystems, to the cross-fertilization of knowledge, and to the international influence of the various forms of digital innovation in the Montreal metropolis.
Pierre Lévy is a philosopher who has dedicated his career to studying the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies, as well as promoting their best social uses. He is particularly recognized for his theorization of human collective intelligence and has created a metalanguage for the information economy (IEML), a data modeling tool with expressive power equivalent to that of a natural language and the regularity of an algebra.
Pierre has been honored many times with academic awards and distinctions. An associate researcher at the Université de Montréal and a member of the Royal Society of Canada, he has written a dozen books that are studied in many universities around the world.
Pierre will deliver the opening conference on the main theme of Collective Intelligence on October 10 at 10 a.m., marking the 30th anniversary of his book. The goal of the conference will be to explore how the emergence of new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, has significantly expanded the possibilities of collective intelligence within communities.
Don’t miss this opportunity to take part in an in-depth reflection on how to navigate this new environment by leveraging the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimizing potential risks.
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