"The Rényi Institute is a special place because it is home to an intellectual workshop where theoretical and practical researchers work together on researching the background of artificial intelligence. This approach, which brings together multiple brains and experts, of course leads to special interactions, but beyond the interestingness, excitement and beauty, there is also a practical reason: AI is such a new field that it is not known which branch of mathematics is closely related to it," reads the introduction to the interview with Balázs Szegedy.
The Index journalist introduces the work of the research group working on artificial intelligence at the Rényi Institute:
“Balázs Szegedy’s research team started as an experimental group with a few people in 2016, and now has more than twenty members from various research fields. Among them are some that seemingly have nothing to do with artificial intelligence, but thanks to their shared mathematical background, surprising connections are revealed. The focus is on topics such as healthcare and energy applications, but they also research how reasoning can be supported with AI, and whether machines can be as good or even better than humans at this. We learn from the researcher that the background of AI is a specific mathematical framework, which is based on the differential calculus developed by Newton and Leibniz. The question is whether mathematical relationships can be found in large systems, and how they can be simplified with the help of these...” - the interview reveals further exciting information about the research project underway at Rényi about work.