Edward McDonnell. CeADAR

Companies struggling to keep up with the pace of advances in AI

Lighthouse Projects Programme creates resources for identifying and implementing emerging technologies
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Edward McDonnell. CeADAR

6 March 2023

The pace of technological developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is happening so fast that many companies are struggling to keep up, according to CeADAR, Ireland’s National Centre for Applied AI.

CeADAR’s Lighthouse Projects Programme focuses on advancements in AI and ML, is helping companies keep up with the relentless pace of technological development. The programme finds emerging technologies, workshops them with companies and create bespoke hands-on training manuals, technical demonstrators, and quick video tutorials to enable the companies to adopt the technologies to solve business problems.

During the process of a project, group discussions with industry stakeholders are held where leading companies in the field of the project are invited to discuss different aspects of the technology including trends, applications and challenges.

Led by Dr. Alireza Dehghani, technical manager at CeADAR, the projects run over a period of six months.

This year’s projects looks at using digital twins to predict the performance of a product or process; and using data analysis and machine learning on data graphs to add value to products or services from their own data or create new ones.

CeADAR Director Edward McDonnell said: “The rapid pace at which advances are being made in the areas of AI and Machine Learning is incredible; new breakthroughs and developments are happening weekly. So much so, it can be bewildering for some companies and many are struggling to keep up.

“CeADAR does the heavy lifting and makes the emerging and existing AI techniques understandable and implementable so busy business leaders and technical experts can try them out and see the benefits they bring to their business first hand before taking the plunge in adopting them.”

Dr Alireza Dehghani, who leads the Lighthouse Projects Programme for CeADAR’s applied research group, said: “Our aim is to create a knowledge base and general use cases through research projects tailored to our member companies’ business needs. Topics are selected collaboratively following a consultation process with member companies that identifies business problems they wish to resolve. As a result, the companies understand what technologies are out there and can incorporate them into their business as and when they are ready to do so.”

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