The Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (CAIAS) is more than just a name for the institution; it articulates the central, defining characteristic of the work that we do. The CAIAS is tasked with being the Kummer Institute’s authority and pioneer in the field of autonomous and intelligent behavior.
Objectives
The objectives of the CAIAS are to tackle problems that are central to both the immediate and long-term priorities of the AI and autonomous system research:
- AI at the Edge: how the information processing on limited platforms necessitates computationally-efficient and memory-compact algorithms.
- Robotics in Constrained Environments: how autonomous systems acclimate to military, humanitarian, or other dangerous scientific missions.
- Green AI: how AI can improve efficiency and conserve energy in every sector impacting climate change, and AI methods can be optimized to reduce their own impact on energy usage.
- Bio AI: the use of AI in human interfaces, medical applications, and other biotechnologies.
- Natural Language Processing: the ability to intelligently and correctly assess human intention and values through natural language.
- AI in Cybersecurity: how AI and autonomous systems can fit into the complex reality of security in modern computing and networking and how it can even respond to unforeseen threats.
- Adaptive Machine Vision: how computer vision can evolve, generalize, and adapt to the ever-changing, chaotic real world.