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The "FUTURAS IN RES" conference organized by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft took place on November 21 and 22, 2019 in Berlin and focused on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Under the motto „What‘s the IQ of AI?“ international experts from research, business and society discussed the latest developments and the future potential of AI. Along five different dimensions of intelligence, the experts explored to which extent AI possesses abilities for communication, perception, reasoning, consciousness-building and empathy.
Two of the conference’s speeches and presentations are currently available in video format on the Fraunhofer IAIS youtube channel.
Keynote from Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel: “The Revolution of AI and Research Approaches” www.youtube.com/watch?v=q63D1Lcq0Dc
In this keynote Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, director of Fraunhofer IAIS, talks about the major milestones in the history of intelligent systems and presents projects at Fraunhofer IAIS that could shape our future with AI. Besides technical research objectives, Prof. Wrobel covers economic and ethical themes. He introduces the International Data Space Association that aims at a global market standard for data sovereignty. Finally, he presents the AI certification project "the Bonn catalogue" for trustworthy and reliable AI.
Presentation from Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann: “Overview and Status of Conversational AI at Fraunhofer”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWLPRifaKk
Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann, Lead Scientist for Conversational AI and Knowledge Graphs at Fraunhofer IAIS, presents an overview on current conversational AI research. Prof. Lehmann talks about Speech-to-Text, Question Answering via Knowledge Graphs and Text-to-Speech AI systems. He demonstrates the SPEAKER voice assistant platform, which is based on technologies of the Fraunhofer IAIS and IIS institutes.