Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research center for mathematics and computer science in The Netherlands and IDEAS NCBR, the Polish centre of innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Economy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. With this MoU the institutes agree to make joint effort to promote scientific research and talent development, specifically in the field of computer science.

Humans do particularly well in solving complex reasoning tasks when we apply a mental process based on moving from one idea to a related one. Adaptive Subgoal Search co-created by dr. Tomasz Odrzygóźdź is a search method that adaptively adjusts the planning horizon that is inspired by human cognitive mechanisms to advanced mathematics and computer sciences.

With the advent of processors and the progress of data science (particularly computer vision and machine learning techniques), non-human actors have been trained to compete and, in an increasing number of cases, win against their homo sapiens counterparts. The benefits of creating AI players are not just about designing a bot that might invent new gaming strategies or be a fun opponent to play against. On the contrary, training such models gives us deep insights into the modern science of algorithms

Central bank digital currencies not necessarily need to replace existing forms of money, may operate not instead but next to other instruments, be an additional payment option. However in black scenario, the governments might want to supervise and, if they feel it is necessary, block or delete the wallet of every user

Modern science operates in grant model, where not only good research idea and competences of scientists, but also ability to manage a project from business perspective is what counts. In second part of the interview we ask Sylwia Piskorska, expert of IDEAS NCBR, on how to navigate this complicated world.

This time we talk about challenges related to the formulation of a research problem and about ideas for interesting research with Dr. Tomasz Michalak, leader of IDEAS NCBR’s work team.