This year's SAIL Spring School took place at Bielefeld University from 26 to 28 March under the title 'Innovating AI Evaluation - Beyond Accuracy and Precision'. Six scientists from the inIT team attended to discuss new perspectives and methods for the evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Spring School was organised as part of the interdisciplinary SAIL project, which focuses on the development of sustainable, responsible AI. The aim of the event was to extend traditional metrics for evaluating AI systems - such as accuracy and precision - to include additional, holistic aspects.
It focused on issues such as fairness, transparency, social impact, safety and robustness, interpretability, context-specific metrics and mathematically sound evaluation approaches. Internationally renowned experts from various disciplines explored these topics from a scientific and practical perspective in eight sessions.
The event brought together doctoral students and early career researchers from all over North Rhine-Westphalia and facilitated an intensive interdisciplinary dialogue. In addition, the social programme offered many opportunities for exchange in a relaxed atmosphere, and the poster session provided space for discussion of ongoing research and doctoral projects.
Julian Knaup, a doctoral student at inIT, underlines the added value of such events: “It was exciting to see and hear what other doctoral students are currently working on. The exchange of ideas is always very valuable. The thematic focus of the Spring School was also very relevant for me, so all in all I took away a lot of exciting and important ideas.”
About SAIL
SAIL is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration between the Universities of Bielefeld and Paderborn, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Bielefeld (HSBI) and the Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (TH OWL). The aim of the project is to develop sustainable, transparent and resource-efficient AI that addresses technological and societal challenges. SAIL is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW).
More about SAIL: www.sail.nrw