Edge AI, helper in detecting insects or language assistants? Artificial intelligence has long been a constant companion in everyday life. AI can be used to make smartphone photos appear more brilliant in colour, to recognize grammatical errors or to distinguish between different smells.
Can artificial intelligence tell coffee and whiskey apart by smell?
The week started, among other things, with a public event on the subject “Edge AI – Next Generation Artificial Intelligence – or can artificial intelligence distinguish between coffee and whiskey by their smell?” Entrepreneurs, students and interested parties met in a relaxed atmosphere to exchange ideas about Edge AI. What is Edge AI? If companies want to use artificial intelligence, the expenses for cloud capacities and data transmission can become a cost factor. With the help of Edge AI, sensors and end devices can start evaluating the data directly on the device. Prof. Dr. Horst Hellbrueck presented an application that uses gas sensors to detect whether the drink is coffee or whiskey.
The christmas market – experience AI
In the middle of the week, the Lübeck universities and that German research center for artificial intelligence as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Technology (IMTE) before. Interested parties could look at the various research and development results, try them out and learn more about autonomous drones, the use of AI in patient diagnostics or teaching.
AI in practice
Where is AI already used today? An overview of the topic of AI in practice was given Prof. Dr. Andre Drews, leader of the working group AIR (Artificial Intelligence Research). His lecture dealt, for example, with how translators work or with language assistants who can classify music and select and play a certain type of music on demand. Students from the AIR working group Jan Philipp Schreiter, Jan Felix Fischer and Keno Teppris continued to explain the application examples for deep learning. Jan Philip Schreiter has dealt with the recognition of human emotions as part of a work. Jan Felix Fischer developed a web app for a well-known environmental association that can classify insects (www.NABU.de/insektensommer/app). Keno Teppris deals with the so-called Text to Speech Generation. Using publicly available audio snippets and texts, he created a new audio file of a well-known politician.
The week of the AI offered diverse insights into the possible applications of artificial intelligence. She also showed that coffee, whiskey and insects do have something in common – they can be detected with the help of AI.