Advancing future technologies and developing the foundations for a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that can learn from people, interact with them seamlessly, and assist them—this is the aim of the new Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (MPC-VMI). The Center brings together the Max Planck…
How can large AI language models be adapted to become more reliable, secure and customisable? How can we understand what is happening inside these language models? Marius Mosbach, new Professor of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University, seeks to address these questions in his research, shedding light on the…
A new partnership brings together two leading AI research institutions to deepen scientific ties between Canada and Germany and advance trustworthy AI, agentic AI, AI safety, and AI for the energy sector. The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Canadian research institute Mila have agreed to join…
AI can free up more time for lawyers to focus on their actual legal work: At the EDV-Gerichtstag conference, taking place September 23 - 25 on the Saarbrücken campus, the Institute for Legal Informatics at Saarland University will present AI tools for research, teaching, and student studies. Professor Georg Borges…
Large language models such as ChatGPT have become an integral part of everyday life for many people and businesses. They are being used, e.g., to gather information from multiple sources and to support complex planning processes. Yet these AI systems are not infallible and they continue to make mistakes –…
