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Finnish Center forArtificial Intelligence
Prof. Caj Södergård, VTT
Real AI for Real People in the Real World
Forest & Photonics Koli, 7.10.2019
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Why AI?• AI brings the biggest business and societal impact over the
near future: to education, government, social welfare and employment
• Tough global competition: the division into leaders and followers is taking place - Finland aims to be a leading country in the application of AI
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By successfully applying AI, Finland can reach a €20-billion and 8% annual boost in GDP and employment increase up to 5% by the year 2023. (source PwC)
• Needs an international AI hub for ensuring and attracting top-level expertise
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Registrations to NIPS
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Finnish Center for Artificial IntelligenceReal AI for Real People in the Real World
• Joint initiative for Artificial Intelligence by Aalto University, University of Helsinki and VTT
• Started early 2018• Based on long-term research excellence
and established collaboration• Strengthens industrial collaboration and
societal impact • Approx. 130 ICT professors• “FCAI will play a critical role in the
implementation of Finland’s AI Strategy” –Pekka Ala-Pietilä
• Annual event: AI Day 26.11.2019https://fcai.fi/ai-day-2019
• Easy-to-use and efficient tools for learning reliable and interpretable AI models, minimizing data requirements
Data Efficiency
• Dependable AI systems the users can trust, to enable sharing of personal data
Trust & Ethics
• Interactive AI solutions that understand human behavior and language, take initiative without disrupting, and collaborate with humans
Understanding
• Extensive range of application domains (“AI and X”), like data-driven healthcare, personalisedmedicine and data science
AI Across Fields
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FCAI Research Programs
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● Goal-driven research programs to reach ambitious objectives
○ Currently seven, more to come
● Concrete solutions in the form of highlights
R6 Autonomous AI
R7 AI Ethics
science
economy
society
education
Accelerate industrial renewal
Generate new business
Create FCAI ecosystem
Promote effective and ethical application of AI
Support governmental decision-making
Provide new AI professionals
Educate professionals in industry and public sector
Increase general public’s understanding
INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY EDUCATION
IMPACT
IMPACT PROGRAMS AND ACTIONS
Syst
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FROM SCIENCE TO IMPACT
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Examples of new projects
● Interactive Artificial Intelligence for Driving R&D● White-boxed Artificial Intelligence ● Artificial Intelligence for Microscopic Structure Search ● Automated trolling and fake news detection in future social media ● Tribological Characterization of Materials Assisted by Artificial
Intelligence & Modelling
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Company collaboration
● FCAI ecosystem ● Research collaboration and proof of concept
services● Knowledge exchange and matchmaking
services● AI education for industry and society ● Student collaboration and recruitment ● Entrepreneurship, startups, and technology
transfer
● More detailed information from: https://fcai.fi/what-we-offer/● Follow also: https://fcai.fi/events/ and https://fcai.fi/fcainews/
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HOW TO ENGAGE WITH FCAI? (Draft, work still in progress)
No fee
Annual fee
No direct
fee
Committed partners
Highly contributing
partners
FCAI steering group approves partners based on contribution criteria, e.g.:• Involvement in AI related research projects • Significant financial contribution
• Significant AI related services • Industrial or societal impact • Data or other resources for FCAI use
BENEFITS
IndustryResearch
institutions
Universities
Public organisations
WE WELCOME CHOOSE A ROLE COSTS
Ecosystemmembers
• Long term commitment
• Experienced research contact • Maturity workshops
• Partner only events• AI Day (stand, entrance, pitch) • Joint project preparations
• Student meetup
• Logo on FCAI pages • Partner bulletin
• Assessment tools• Events • Online courses
• Matchmaking• Access to FCAI Network
• Project opportunities
• Tight collaboration