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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

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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