Jean-Louis Dessalles is associate professor at Télécom Paris in the LTCI laboratory and a member of the DIG research team. He uses artificial intelligence to model and simulate the relevance that characterizes spontaneous human communication.
For a decade, he has been developing the Theory of Simplicity, which serves as a basis for modeling narrative interest and argumentative relevance. He also works on the simulation of evolutionary processes and on the fundamental question of the origin of human language, considered as a social signalling game. He is the author of several books, including Why We Talk (Oxford University Press. 2007), La pertinence et ses origines cognitives (Hermes), Le fil de la vie (Odile Jacob, 2016), Des intelligences TRÈS artificielles (Odile Jacob, 2019).
Keywords: Artifical intelligence