Austria’s Next Clusters of Excellence Commence, incl. Research Project with Former ASEA-UNINET Coordinator

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), together with the participating research institutions, continue to invest in major cross-location research projects: two further consortia have received funding commitments from the FWF totaling 37.7 million euros for the next five years. Nine research institutions are involved in the next clusters of excellence and are expanding areas of strength in the future fields of ageing research and artificial intelligence.

One of these includes the research project „Bilateral AI“, coordinated by the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) with Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter, Director of Research at JKU and former ASEA-UNINET University Coordinator at JKU.

The “Bilateral AI” research project brings together the two most important strands of research in the field of artificial intelligence to date, namely sub-symbolic AI (machine learning) and symbolic AI (knowledge representation and reasoning). Both approaches are now to be brought together in the project. The common goal: to develop the foundations of a “Broad AI”, which could draw its own conclusions and have comprehensive cognitive abilities. While existing AI programmes, such as the much talked about language models like ChatGPT, ultimately only evaluate existing data, the new AI systems could plan better, adapt quickly to changing situations and thus become creative in a broader sense.

Source: OTS