ZEW Sails into the World of Artificial Intelligence on the MS Wissenschaft

On 11 July 2019, the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft anchored in Bonn on the Stresemannufer in the context of the Science Year 2019. In the early evening, visitors were invited to take a tour of the exhibition on the topic of artificial intelligence. ZEW digital economist Janna Axenbeck was also on board presenting the touch-screen exhibit “Wie Künstliche Intelligenz Sprache und die Welt verstehen lernt” (“How Artificial Intelligence Learns to Understand Language and the World”) during a “Meet the Scientist” event.

The participating ZEW team created this interactive exhibit displayed on board of the MS Wissenschaft to give visitors the opportunity to get to known about the research conducted at ZEW. During a “Meet the Scientist” event, ZEW digital economist Janna Axenbeck provided first-hand information on the backgrounds, challenges and goals of working with artificial intelligence (AI): “With the floating Science Center, we have the opportunity to present our work with AI and neural networks directly at the exhibition. This way, we contribute to the fact that digitalisation and AI are not only perceived as a challenge or a risks, but rather as an opportunity. It was great to see how interested the visitors are in the exhibit and the work we do at ZEW”, says economist Janna Axenbeck.