Alípio Jorge, University of Porto

Europe has a very important role in pushing the human aspect into artificial intelligence, because we are on one side competing with US and China we have a completely different view of what AI is and different start. In Europa we are by culture working on AI with very strong human drive and this is very important. Not only to be different form the others, but because it’s what we believe in and I think it’s not disadvantage as some people see it. Data protection can be a disadvantage for AI companies on the other hand I think it’s a strong advantage that we can have and that we should have.

Understanding what people do and say and that has to do with language technologies and connecting them with the real world, so finding ways of discovering semantics and actually understanding what text and words say.