The Germany-based company has partnered with Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU) to conduct joint research into the intelligent car of the future. Through the Audi.JKU Deep Learning Centre, and working with one of Europe’s leading experts in artificial intelligence, Prof. Sepp Hochreiter, Audi plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in automobiles. Hochreiter developed the ‘long short-term memory’ (LSTM) used for speech-recognition software in all smartphones. The application of AI has ‘enormous potential’ for self-driving cars, Hochreiter said, not just for speech recognition, ‘but even for predicting passengers’ intentions and needs, and reacting to them. Drivers in the future will feel safer in their cars than in their own living rooms.’
Audi and the Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz establish the „Audi.JKU deep learning center“. Through cooperation with the Institute for Bioinformatics headed by Prof. Sepp Hochreiter, Audi plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in automobiles. With the Audi A7 piloted driving concept, the company is testing piloted driving in the field.
Artificial intelligence can be used for ‘predicting passengers’ intentions and needs, and reacting to them. (PHOTO: AUDI)