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The Hessian Center for
Artificial Intelligence
Driving research excellence, education, practice and leadership in AI to foster economic growth and improve the human condition.
AI
Innovationlab
Primary goal of hessian.AI’s Innovationlab is the promotion of development and production of state-of-the-art AI technology.
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.
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 Ph.D. researcher Daniel Palenicek named finalist of the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program
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Federal funding for hessian.AI Service Center until 2027
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hessian.AI researchers featured in ARD documentary on safe AI systems against abuse imagery
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Advancing AI Literacy: hessian.AI Concludes Collaborative Project on Article 4 Requirements
About
hessian.AI – the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence pursues the goal of conducting excellent basic research with concrete practical relevance and also to promote transfer to industry and society. The centre, in which 13 Hessian universities are involved, bundles the expertise of 22 AI scientists and expands it through 22 new professorships.
Based on cutting-edge research as conducted at the TU Darmstadt and other Hessian universities, significant contributions are made to the research and development of novel AI systems with human-like thinking and communication capabilities, which are classified as belonging to the so-called “Third Wave of AI”.
AI Innovationlab
Primary goal of hessian.AI’s Innovationlab is the promotion of development and production of state-of-the-art AI technology. For this purpose, we are offering the use of a modern technical infrastructure in the form of a HPC (High-Performance-Computing)-Cluster which is able to perform the execution of demanding machine/deep learning models in connection with huge datasets (Big Data). Furthermore, we can assist with AI-related consulting services, e.g. with regard to developing and implementing these kind of models.
RAI
Reasonable Artificial Intelligence
Over the last decade, deep learning (DL) has led to groundbreaking progress in artificial intelligence, but current DL-based AI systems are unreasonable in many ways: (1) They are developed and deployed in unreasonable ways, requiring unreasonably large models, data, computations, and infrastructure, ultimately giving a monopoly to a few big companies with the necessary resources; (2) they cannot reason or easily handle unfamiliar situations and nuanced context, and also lack reasonable common sense and abstraction capabilities; (3) they neither continuously improve over time, nor do they learn through interactions or can quickly adapt – they need frequent retraining, leading to unreasonable economic and environmental costs.
AI Startup Rising
AI Startup Rising is a project of the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) and the universities involved in the centre: TU Darmstadt (TUDa), University of Kassel (UK) and Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) with special reference to the respective startup centres or startup supporting departments. With AI Startup Rising, a start-up and scaling platform for high- and deep-AI start-ups from science is being created in Hesse. The common goal of the partners is to build an internationally visible AI innovation ecosystem that understands the region’s top AI research as a source of sustainably successful high- and deep-tech startups, produces successful startups and acts as a point of attraction for talent, investors and companies.
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Opportunities
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Fully funded PhD positions: Join the Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence”
About the Cluster of Excellence 3057 Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) RAI was selected as one of 70 Clusters of Excellence to receive funding in a highly competitive process. The RAI […]
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What people
say about us
"Our working world is changing faster than ever. Digitalization and the use of artificial intelligence in particular are both a trend and a response to the immense demand for workers and specialists. This means that AI is not a threat to the labor market, but is increasingly becoming a driver of value creation. Due to Hessen's economic structure and the high degree of digitalization in our key industries, such as ICT, finance, transport and logistics, as well as Hessen's top-level AI research, Hessen has particular potential for the development and application of AI. Through the combination of cutting-edge AI research and application orientation, the involvement of the economy and its needs as well as concrete programs to promote AI start-ups, hessian.AI, as the heart of the Hessian AI ecosystem, makes a significant contribution to leveraging the outstanding potential in this area and further expanding Hesse's leading role in the field of AI."
Kaweh Mansoori
Hessian Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Areas
October 24, 2024
"hessian.AI is a success story with which Hessen is helping to shape the research and development of artificial intelligence in the long term. The center combines the competence and expertise of 13 universities and, with its scientific excellence, is an important building block in the Hessian AI ecosystem."
Timon Gremmels
Hessian Minister for Science and Research, Art and Culture
November 22, 2024
"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
President of TU Darmstadt
August 31, 2020
"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
Chairwoman of the Conference of University Presidents in Hesse and President of Goethe University Frankfurt
August 31, 2020
"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
President of the TH Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences and Chairman of HAW Hesse
August 31, 2020
"Hessen is one of the most important locations for data centers in Europe, has highly innovative companies and start-ups and offers excellent AI research at its universities. In Hessen, we recognized the great opportunities, but also the challenges that AI brings with it at an early stage and have created a framework with the AI Future Agenda to further develop 'AI made in Hessen' in a targeted manner. The focus is always on people - 'AI made in Hessen' means innovation and responsibility. hessian.AI plays an important role here: in recent years, the AI Center has developed into a beacon in cutting-edge AI research. Together with other institutions such as the AI Quality & Testing Hub GmbH, the AI Innovation Lab, the Future Centre ZUKIPRO and the Centre for Responsible Digitalization ZEVEDI, hessian.AI is now a focal point for the AI ecosystem in Hessen and beyond."
Kristina Sinemus
Hessian Minister for Digitalisation and Innovation
September 16, 2024