The Saarland state government announced last June that it would support the establishment of a Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe) at Saarland University with more than €53 million in funding. Today, the center officially begins its work with a ceremonial kick-off event. Among those attending are Minister Jakob von Weizsäcker,…
Even the best AI language models — so-called large language models — can be significantly off the mark when it comes to logical questions. In such cases, calculations are incorrect, sequences are reproduced incorrectly, or the AI hallucinates and invents false statistics or quotes. Michael Hahn, a computational linguist at…
Städte enthalten enorme Mengen an wertvollen Materialien, die in bestehenden Gebäuden verbaut sind und bei Sanierungen oder Rückbauten häufig ungenutzt verloren gehen. Genau hier setzt Urban Mining an: Es betrachtet Gebäude als Materiallager und zielt darauf ab, vorhandene Baustoffe und Bauteile systematisch zu erfassen und wiederzuverwenden, statt sie zu entsorgen.…
Quantum computers can do some things better than classical computers—but many things they still cannot. Researchers at Saarland University are now working together with industry partners BMW, Infineon, and the quantum computing start-up planqc to combine both worlds. A quantum computer is intended to help classical computers tackle highly complex…
Max Planck researchers investigate “quantum neural networks” as a building block for more efficient visual-computing models. The “4D Quantum Computer Vision” research group at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, is investigating the potential of quantum computing for computer-based image processing, also known as visual computing.…
