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Last week was an important milestone for the SAIL research network as we came together for our first annual retreat. Away from our usually digital interactions, the retreat provided us with a unique opportunity for face-to-face discussions and sharing. On the first day, PhD students presented their research projects, which sparked insightful discussions that continued during the coffee breaks. In addition to the academic discussions, we planned the year ahead together on the second day of the retreat, reflecting on…

How exactly do Alexa and ChatGPT work? And what happens when I ask the voice assistant a question? This was the topic of an event in the Körber-Stiftung's "Lets Talk Tech!" series on Thursday, November 30. Prof. Barbara Hammer was invited to Hamburg as an AI expert on this topic. In conversation with science journalist Svea Eckert, she explained how the intelligent applications work. With the help of vivid examples of everyday situations, the interested audience was given an understanding…

The next SAIL event is coming up: On November 23, a hybrid workshop on "Fundamental Limits of Large Language Models" will take place. The program will contain a series of invited talks by esteemed researchers around the world. For further information and registration see https://sites.google.com/view/sail-ws-llms/home…

This winter semester, a SAIL lecture series will be held on the topic of "Robust AI". It will kick off on 2nd November at 4 pm with Prof. Barbara Hammer giving a talk on "How to Attack Neural Networks." The lecture will take place online at: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/64775735478?pwd=TFpEUVFPME5EQXFKMHZHY1ZsM2Y4Zz09 There is no registration necessary. We welcome all interested parties to participate in our lecture series!

On October 11, 2023, an internal event of Bosch's pre-development department took place at the Bosch Research Campus in Renningen. The well-attended event provided ample opportunity to exchange ideas and insights - both through exciting presentations and inspiring conversations in a pleasant atmosphere. Prof. Dr. Markus Lange-Hegermann, board member from the Institute for Industrial Information Technology (inIT), professor at the Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (TH OWL) and team member of the SAIL-Project, made an important contribution to the event with his…

The SAIL research network was represented at the Research Day of Paderborn Universtiy. This year's event took place on 26th September 2023 under the motto "Smart Sustainability: Future-proof Concepts". In the context of a workshop with the topic "Intelligent Technical Systems and AI - Opportunities and Challenges" our members Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus, Christoph Berganski, Keno Pape and Jörn Tebbe were able to present their PhD projects and the research of the SAIL research network. The Research Day of Paderborn University…

We look forward to a virtual talk that is hosted by the JAII. Our presenter, Prof. Hinrich Schütze (LMU Munich, Schütze lab) is a renowned expert in computational linguistics who will talk about "Glot500: Scaling Multilingual Corpora and Language Models to 500 Languages". The talk will be held on on July 6, 16:00-17.30 CET and this is the Zoom link to participate. Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are currently the most active area of research in NLP. Most work has focused…

The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics INDIN'23 will take place from July 17 to 20 in Lemgo. INDIN 2023 is hosted by Institute Industrial IT of TH OWL and Fraunhofer IOSB-INA. The international conference will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies. Industry experts, researchers and academics are gathering together to share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, as well as initiatives related to…

We look forward to the SAIL Lecture and Networking Event! For this we welcome Prof. Tanja Schultz from the University of Bremen on May 9, who will give a lecture on "Biosignal-Adaptive Cognitive Systems". We cordially invite all interested parties to this event which will be held in cooperation with the DataNinja Spring School 2023. In this context there will be further interesting lectures, in which you are of course welcome to participate. Please note: the in-person attendance slots for…

Under the Twitter handle @SAIL_network our research network can now also be found in social media. There we regularly report on the work of our SAIL members, share events and draw attention to interesting research activities. Stop by and follow us: https://twitter.com/SAIL_network