Francis Pieraut
Apply Machine Learning Research Engineer/Entrepreneur/Investor & Mentor
Francis is an hardcore tech entrepreneur, community builder, enabler and connector. By training, Francis is an apply research engineer from MTL's prestigious Yoshua Bengio lab (MILA). Francis was involved in early research on Deep Learning. He is involved directly and indirectly in many tech companies.
Proposals - Montreal 2026
Why AI isn’t close to beat human yet: the ML perspective
Everyone seems to be scared about AI taking over humanity. I don’t think so and I will present why in a Machine Learning perspective and importance of higher level consciousness. Fear is making us weak and doesn’t allow us to get a clear picture of the true challenge we are facing.
How to deal with claude.ai - a ML perspective
Are you looking to better understand how to better leverage claude.ai and why it behaves this way? Dealing with claude.ai is counter-intuitive for many people. I will present why claude.ai is behaving this way and how to use the ML perspective to better constrain him to do what you really want with prompts.
How to model anything - The ML framework
Are you looking for the optimal model to explain anything? In this talk, I will show you how the ML framework and how to apply if to human race, man, women, psychopath, corporation, etc.
The ultimate trick to Learn Faster - AI applied to life
Are you looking to learn way faster? In the ultimate trick to learn faster, you will learn how to rewire your brain to achieve crazy learning speed. It is basically Machine Learning applied to life. I wish I did learn this trick when I was 6 years old not 30. This could drastically change how your brain will allow you to reach unprecedented learning speed.
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