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CfA: Precall "Bilateral AI" (50 PhDs, 10 Postdocs), fall 2024, Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence

Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence



Pre-Call for Applications



For the recently established Cluster of Excellence CoE Bilateral Artificial
 Intelligence (BILAI), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we are lo
oking for more than 50 PhD students and 10 Post-Doc researchers (m/f/d) to 
join our team at one of the six leading research institutions across Austri
a (see below).

In BILAI, major Austrian players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are teamin
g up to work towards Broad AI. As opposed to Narrow AI, which is characteri
zed by task-specific skills, Broad AI seeks to address a wide array of prob
lems, rather than being limited to a single task or domain. To develop its 
foundations, BILAI employs a Bilateral AI approach, effectively combining s
ub-symbolic AI (neural networks and machine learning) with symbolic AI (log
ic, knowledge representation, and reasoning) in various ways.

Harnessing the full potential of both symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches 
can open new avenues for AI, enhancing its ability to solve novel problems,
 adapt to diverse environments, improve reasoning skills, and increase effi
ciency in computation and data use. These key features enable a broad range
 of applications for Broad AI, from drug development and medicine to planni
ng and scheduling, autonomous traffic management, and recommendation system
s.

Prioritizing fairness, transparency, and explainability, the development of
 Broad AI is crucial for addressing ethical concerns and ensuring a positiv
e impact on society.



The research team is committed to cross-disciplinary work in order to provi
de theory and models for future AI and deployment to applications.



CoE Research Institutions:

      Johannes Kepler Universitt Linz (JKU Linz)

      Technische Universitt Wien (TU Wien)

      Alpen-Adria-Universitt Klagenfurt (AAU)

      Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

      Technische Universitt Graz (TU Graz)

      Wirtschaftsuniversitt Wien (WU Wien)



Board of directors:

      Sepp Hochreiter (JKU Linz)

      Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien)

      Thomas Eiter (TU Wien)

      Gerhard Friedrich (AAU)

      Christoph Lampert (ISTA)

      Robert Legenstein (TU Graz)

      Axel Polleres (WU Wien)

      Martina Seidl (JKU Linz)



The call for applications will open on *** September 1,*** 2024.
For more information, see http://www.bilateral-ai.net.



Stay tuned!

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