The Cluster of Excellence brings together researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Julius-Maximilian University Würzburg, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of Tübingen, Saarland University in Saarbrücken, and the University of Bremen. The involved disciplines include Computer Science and Cognitive Science.
Over the last decade, Deep Learning (DL) has led to groundbreaking progress in artificial intelligence, but current DL-based AI systems are unreasonable in many ways:
(1) They are developed and deployed in unreasonable ways, requiring unreasonably large models, data, computations, and infrastructure, ultimately giving a monopoly to a few big companies with the necessary resources;
(2) they cannot reason or easily handle unfamiliar situations and nuanced context, and also lack reasonable common sense and abstraction capabilities;
(3) they neither continuously improve over time, nor do they learn through interactions or quickly adapt—they require frequent retraining, leading to unreasonable economic and environmental costs. Such unreasonable learning makes them brittle and may even be harmful to society; it needs to be fixed at its core, not merely through brute-force scaling of resources or the application of band-aid solutions.
Within the Cluster of Excellence, the partners aim to develop a new generation of AI, referred to as Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI). This new form of AI will learn in more reasonable ways, with models trained in a decentralized fashion, continuously improving over time, building abstract knowledge of the world, and possessing an innate ability to reason, interact, and adapt to their surroundings.
(Planned) Support Activities for Postdocs
Short-Term Mobility Grants | Seed Funding for Interdisciplinary Pilot Projects | Workshops on Grant Writing, Leadership Skills, Research Data Management, and Transferable Skills | Annual Retreats | Mentoring Schemes | Networking Events
Recruiting
Open positions in the Cluster are currently published on the job portal of the Technical University of Darmstadt, they are working on a page for open positions.
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