hessianAI

The Hessian Center for
Artificial Intelligence

Driving research excellence, education, practice and leadership in AI to foster economic growth and improve the human condition.

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3AI
Third Wave of AI

3AI aims to explore the Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence: AI systems should acquire human-like communication and reasoning capabilities and be able to recognize, classify and adapt to new situations autonomously.

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AI Startup Rising

AI Startup Rising channels the startup activities of hessian.AI. The goal is to aggregate and expand existing competencies in Hesse and to build an internationally visible AI innovation ecosystem.

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hessian.AI – das Hessische Zentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz verfolgt das Ziel, exzellente Grundlagenforschung mit konkretem Praxisbezug zu leisten und zudem den Transfer in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft voranzutreiben. Das Zentrum, an dem 13 hessische Universitäten beteiligt sind, bündelt die Expertise von 22 KI-Wissenschaftler*innen und erweitert diese um 22 neue Professuren.

Ausgehend von Spitzenforschung, wie sie an der TU Darmstadt und anderen hessischen Hochschulen betrieben wird, werden wesentliche Beiträge zur Erforschung und Entwicklung neuartiger KI-Systeme mit menschenähnlichen Denk- und Kommunikationsfähigkeiten geleistet, die der sogenannten „Third Wave of AI“ zugerechnet werden.

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Third Wave of AI

Forschende unter der Leitung der TU Darmstadt wollen eine neue Ära in der Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) einläuten: Ihre KI-Systeme sollen menschenähnliche Kommunikations- und Denkfähigkeiten erwerben, neue Situationen erkennen, einordnen und sich selbstständig an sie anpassen. Das Projekt „Third Wave of AI“ wird im Rahmen der Förderlinie „Clusterprojekte“ des Landes Hessen zur Vorbereitung auf die nächste Runde der Bund-Länder-Exzellenzstrategie bis 2025 mit 5,2 Millionen Euro gefördert und verbindet KI-Forschung der TU Darmstadt, der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, des Universitätsklinikums Frankfurt und der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

AI Startup Rising

AI Startup Rising ist ein Vorhaben des Hessischen Zentrums für Künstliche Intelligenz (hessian.AI) und der am Zentrum beteiligten Hochschulen TU Darmstadt (TUDa), Universität Kassel (UK) und Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) mit speziellem Bezug zu den jeweiligen Gründerzentren bzw. gründungsfördernden Abteilungen. Mit AI Startup Rising entsteht in Hessen eine Gründungs- und Skalierungsplattform für High- und Deep-AI Startups aus der Wissenschaft. Gemeinsames Ziel der Partner ist der Aufbau eines international sichtbaren, KI-Innovationsökosystems, das die KI-Spitzenforschung der Region als Quelle nachhaltig erfolgreicher High- und Deep-Tech Startups begreift, erfolgreiche Startups hervorbringt und als Anziehungspunkt für Talente, Investoren und Unternehmen wirkt.

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"Artificial intelligence enables computers to learn new skills that will allow us to find better solutions to the challenges we face, be it in the field of medicine, tackling environmental issues or overcoming social problems. It will open up huge scientific and economic potential and thus comes with great responsibility. In order to exploit the opportunities for science, business and people in Hesse, we are relying on the particular strengths of the universities in Hesse: The Technical University of Darmstadt is strong in basic research and is closely followed by other universities that are conducting specialist research into AI, while we can also call on outstanding practical research at the University of Applied Sciences. The concept was jointly developed by 13 universities and more than 40 partners from the fields of research and business already want to cooperate with the centre today. Thanks to its unique characteristics, the centre will – as confirmed by the independent evaluation commission – become highly visible internationally, acting as a beacon in this field that will reach far beyond the boundaries of our state."

Angela Dorn
Hessische Staatsministerin für Wissenschaft und Kunst
August 31st, 2020

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"The universities in Hesse that have worked on the concept for the centre under the leadership of TU Darmstadt have created something really unique here: We are bringing together all of our outstanding research into artificial intelligence in all its facets from the basics through to application research under one roof. As a result, we are taking on a pioneering role both nationally and internationally."

Tanja Brühl
Präsidentin der Technischen Universität Darmstadt
August 31st, 2020

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"The fact that the new centre will integrate and bring together the full scope, originality and quality of the expertise in AI from all o the participating universities will give it greater standing and prestige. In future, we will be able to present our combined strengths in international competition and thus make Hesse a laboratory of the future for AI research."

Birgitta Wolf
ehem. Präsidentin der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
August 31st, 2020

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"There is great potential in the business structures in Hesse for the application of artificial intelligence. More companies already use AI in Hesse today than in other federal states. Five percent of the companies in Hesse were already using AI in 2018. We want to build on this and expand the use of AI. A key focus of the AI Centre will be on transferring knowledge between science and business, i.e. between research and application. As a result, we want to enable more business startups. Artificial intelligence sounds abstract and complicated yet we are encountering it more and more in everyday life, whether it is facial recognition on smartphones or parking assistants in cars. In turn, companies will increasingly use AI as a motor for generating added value digitally. And this is what we want to strengthen and promote in Hesse."

Tarek Al-Wazir
Hessischer Minister für Wirtschaft, Energie, Verkehr, Wohnen
August 31st, 2020

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"The University of Applied Sciences views participation in the new centre as an opportunity to contribute its expertise in IT and applications with the aim of developing beneficial applications for artificial intelligence. We expect this to be an advantage for the cross-university research collaboration, especially for transfer projects, from which companies throughout Hesse will be able to benefit in particular."

Matthias Willems
Präsident der Technischen Hochschule Mittelhessen
August 31st, 2020

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"We want to decisively shape the development of artificial intelligence her in Hesse and at the same time place a particular focus on ethical issues. The use of AI should be for the benefit of people and based on clear, ethical principles. The development and application of AI in the future must be based on a free, democratic, responsible, transparent and non-discriminatory approach. Therefore, the possible applications should also always be carefully considered when carrying out research into AI. Interdisciplinarity is a core element and AI applications can thus only be successfully developed by combining the methods and insights of 3 or more different disciplines. The centre will therefore cooperate closely with the Centre for Responsible Digitalisation, which will make the Centre for Responsible Digitalisation a really key component of the success of AI in Hesse. It works at the interface between business, science and society in order to unlock the potential of AI for Hesse."

Kristina Sinemus
Hessische Ministerin für Digitale Strategie und Entwicklung
August 31st, 2020