Dresden/Munich (dpa) - Universities from Munich and Dresden want to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the joint research project "GAIn" (Next Generation Al Computing). Specifically, the three-year collaboration between the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the Technische Universität München (TUM) and the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden will focus on the further development of current hardware platforms for AI applications. Both states are funding the project with three million euros each.

"With the GAIn research project, we want to give Saxony and Bavaria a leading international role in central computing technologies and thus also contribute to Germany's technological sovereignty," said Saxony's Science Minister Sebastian Gemkow (CDU).

Laying the foundations for things that are not yet imaginable

His Bavarian colleague Markus Blume (CSU) emphasized: "With constantly growing requirements in medicine, robotics and communication, our technological progress must also increase in scale. Energy-efficient hardware and pioneering software concepts are our key to this." Even if it is not yet possible to imagine what will one day be possible, a foundation must be laid now.

The rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence worldwide in recent years has shown that the application of AI and technologies based on it is largely dependent on the hardware platforms used, the report continued. In the long term, AI applications face challenges in the areas of energy consumption, predictability, reliability and the implementation of legal requirements.

Concerns about problems in the further development of AI applications

However, scientists at LMU, TU Munich and TU Dresden believe that the current hardware will no longer be able to cope with all of these challenges. This could severely restrict further developments in areas such as communication, medicine and robotics or - in the case of the energy problem - even bring them to a standstill.