[GDNET] Precall "Bilateral AI" (50 PhDs, 10 Postdocs), fall 2024
Miksch Silvia
silvia.miksch at tuwien.ac.at
Wed Jun 26 21:43:58 CEST 2024
Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Call for Applications
For the recently established Cluster of Excellence CoE Bilateral
Artificial
Intelligence (BILAI), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we are
looking for more than 50 PhD students and 10 Post-Doc researchers (m/f/d)
to join our team at one of the six leading research institutions
across Austria
(see below).
In BILAI, major Austrian players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are
teaming up to work towards Broad AI. As opposed to Narrow AI, which is
characterized by task-specific skills, Broad AI
seeks to address a wide array of problems, rather than being limited to a
single task or domain. To develop its foundations, BILAI employs a
Bilateral AI approach, effectively combining sub-symbolic AI (neural
networks and machine learning) with symbolic AI (logic, knowledge
representation, and reasoning) in various ways.
Harnessing the full potential of both symbolic and sub-symbolic
approaches can open new avenues for AI, enhancing its ability to solve
novel problems, adapt to diverse environments, improve reasoning skills,
and increase efficiency in computation and data use. These key features
enable a broad range of applications for Broad AI, from drug development
and medicine to planning and scheduling, autonomous traffic management,
and recommendation systems. Prioritizing fairness, transparency, and
explainability, the
development of Broad AI is crucial for addressing ethical concerns and
ensuring a positive impact on society.
The research team is committed to cross-disciplinary work in order to
provide theory and models for future AI and deployment to applications.
CoE Research Institutions:
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU Linz)
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz)
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Wien)
Board of directors:
Sepp Hochreiter (JKU Linz)
Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien)
Thomas Eiter (TU Wien)
Gerhard Friedrich (AAU)
Christoph Lampert (ISTA)
Robert Legenstein (TU Graz)
Axel Polleres (WU Wien)
Martina Seidl (JKU Linz)
The call for applications will open on *** September 1,*** 2024. For more
information, see http://www.bilateral-ai.net
Stay tuned
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