ENS Paris-Saclay students work on the future of AI

Paris-Saclay is home to the designers of tomorrow’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Students from the prestigious MVA master’s program at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay spoke to the media outlet La Croix about their perceptions of AI technology and their career aspirations. Constantin Vaillant-Tenzer, for example, uses only two words to explain what he does to those who know nothing about it: artificial intelligence. To others, the 24-year-old student talks about machine learning. However, according to his classmate Guillaume Lévy, even that description remains vague. In university halls, it is more common to talk about learning techniques, such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, etc. No matter how we talk about it, these students are building the technologies of tomorrow.