Sep 27, 2020 | AF Institute, artificial intelligence
On 22 October 2020, the AF Institute is holding a symposium on “AI & Cancer” at the Federation of Austrian Industry in Vienna. The event is designed as a hybrid conference and will be broadcast live for free. The conference will focus on the role of data in...
Sep 16, 2020 | artificial intelligence, Working Papers
The AF Institute has recently published three essays on artificial intelligence in the Working Papers series. Stacked Autoencoders for Visualizing Gene Expression in Cancer by Wolfgang Groß, Prof. Dr. Frank Jäkel, Dr. Sascha Lange, Prof. em. Dr. Drs. h.c. Roland...
Sep 7, 2020 | AF Institute, artificial intelligence, ethics, Working Papers
Artificial intelligence, as a so-called General Purpose Technology (GPT), has the best prerequisites to be the driver for the sixth long wave of economic development (colloquially known as a Kondratiev wave). This is clear from a report recently written by economist...
Aug 13, 2020 | artificial intelligence, general
Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips – but what does it mean? We want to take three definitions as examples: One from the OECD, one from the European Commission and one from Wikipedia. Definition of the OECD The OECD defines an Artificial Intelligence...
