Cluster of Excellence – Machine Learning for Science

29.09.2023

ERC Starting Grant for Eric Schulz to investigate self-learning AI systems

Max Planck Research Group Leader and cluster member Eric Schulz at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics has won a 1.5 million euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate learning in large language models such as ChatGPT.

Eric Schulz receives a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)
Eric Schulz receives a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)

Can algorithms be developed in the near future that will acquire new knowledge on their own initiative, without being trained by specialists to do so? And what do inducements of self-motivated learning look like? In the project „Towards an Artificial Cognitive Science“, Eric Schulz's research group is using methods from cognitive psychology to better understand the processing of artificial intelligence and find answers to these questions.

Further information on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

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