Ten days ago I took part in the SEINE AI 2026 workshop in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris (homestead of HEC), organised by the Huawei Paris Research Center.. In which I was invited to speak, even though I felt sort of an outlier given the deeply machine-learning, entreprenarial orientation of the meeting, with its theme being Building the Agentic Future of ICT, given that I chose to present our most recent Bayesian adversarial privacy paper. Hence, I stood within a game-theoretic, Bayesian, formal landscape, presumably loosing most of the audience and keeping them away from their lunch!
Other speakers included Simon Lucas from Queen Mary London on Simulation-based AI, which I had trouble distinguishing from building a statistical model by goodness of fit (and using bandits used for update), while focussing on competing on some computer game challenges. And Volker Tresp from LMU München on a tensor brain model that he opposes to a Bayesian brain (with a related paper entitled Bayes or Heisenberg: Who(se) rules? which we discussed in general terms over lunch, namely Bayesian learning vs. quantum updating. And Michal Valko from INRIA Paris (and other companies), who went full blast against the Bradley-Terry model!, with a title of Nash and Nemirovski walk into a bar! With a half-time technique approximating Nash equilibria that reminded me of leapfrog. Much entertaining talk that further provided a game-theoretic transition to mine’s.
As an aside, I played yesterday with ChatGPT composing my talk slides out of our arXiv document and it proved a disaster, with hallucinations of results and concepts not in the paper and a complete mess of handling graphs, first creating generic, fake, unrelated pictures, then inserting actual graphs haphazardly throughout the slides. The sorry result I obviously did not use as the workshop did not seem the ideal place for this sort of prank! The actual version only recycles a few of its summarising slides. (With ye Norse farce proper colour choice!)
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