The co-spokespersons of RAI, Professor Kristian Kersting and Professor Marcus Rohrbach, presented the vision of the cluster in an engaging manner. Researchers in RAI work in multidisciplinary teams on a new generation of artificial intelligence. This new form of AI will learn in a more “reasonable” way, improve continuously, build abstract knowledge about the world, and possess an intuitive ability to think, interact and adapt to its environment. AI models developed within RAI are trained in a decentralised manner, with the aim of using compute resources efficiently. In a live demonstration presented by Professor Simone Schaub-Meyer and Simon Kiefhaber, the guests were able to test an initial application of this vision. By optimising algorithms for machine vision, movements can be detected in real time, and feedback on both direction and speed can be provided immediately and intuitively to users.

Tschentscher expressed his appreciation for the work of the University’s researchers and emphasised its relevance for users and political decision-makers alike—particularly with regard to questions of the ethically responsible use of artificial intelligence to support work processes.