Nearly so, as SpareBank1 SMNs Head of Transformation and Strategic partners - Knut Eilif Halgunseth, although a little skeptical on this picture! - had an encounter with robot 'Kaia' at the NorwAI Innovate Conference. Kaia opens new possibilities, Halgunseth argues, both improving existing businesses and opportunities not yet known. How so?
In the article, we also explains more on the mysteries of the advanced and social skilled robot 'Kaia' that is one of new projects NorwAI is working on to identify new services the coming years. Photo: Adresseavisen
Three young students and to be researchers won the industrial hackaton organised by Cognite. Six teams of future AI programmers competed. What made the three students winners?
At NorwAI Innovate, ten poster projects by students were allowed by the jury to be displayed. Nils Barlaup was honored the award fort best project. What was on Nils' mnd?
Hard work ahead, says Ivea Martinkenaite on AI prospects
In an inspired keynote, Ieva Martinkenaite, VP and head of Advanced Analytics & AI at Telenor, gave a status of AI in the crossroad between research and business right now. Further on AI offers hard work, she said. Is that cool? What were the insights Martinkenaite brought to the audience? . Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU
Chair Kerstin Bach of NorwAI introducing the Research Excellence Session (picture). NorwAI Innovate attracted more than 200 people Photo: Kai T Dragland, NTNU
Famous Nobel Prize winner Edvard Moser, professor at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, gave an inspirational lecture as the exit keynote speaker at NorwAI Innovate.
He invited the AI researchers at NorwAI to explore possible cooperation possibilities after presenting his own groundbreaking work in brain research on which the Kavli Institute has won international praise.
- So although the hardware is quite different, brains and computers share some fundamental similarities at the algorithmic level, said Edvard Moser.
He gave several examples of similarities.
- This implies there may be huge benefits of cross-talk between computational neuroscience and AI, concluded Edvard Moser. Photo: Kai T Dragland, NTNU
ANOTHER MISSION
Helge Langseth, professor at NTNU, is happy to announce that NorwAI partners TrønderEnergi, SINTEF and NTNU together with collaborators have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council for the “RICO – Robust Intelligent Control” project.
The key idea is to develop new methods for close-to optimal control strategies for operation in an everchanging world, while simultaneously making sure that the controlled system is at all times being kept well within safety-margins.
The developed methods will be challenged in diverse tasks like optimally controlling the HVAC system of office buildings, charging fleets of electrical cars, and optimizing oil-well drilling.
When the project officially kicks off next year, it will collaborate with other work on streaming data already ongoing within NorwAI. Photo: Kai T Dragland, NTNU
IT WORKED WELL
Sven Størmer Thalow, chair of NorwAI, says NorwAI Innovate aimed to be the most important AI Conferencein Norway - and succeeded on the first try. Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU
