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Alan Turing Institute and FCAI developing Virtual Laboratories and more in wide-ranging collaboration
Alan Turing Institute and FCAI developing Virtual Laboratories and more in wide-ranging collaboration,The Alan Turing Institute and the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) are actively building out their partnership. Both institutions are

Alan Turing Institute and FCAI developing Virtual Laboratories and more in wide-ranging collaboration

The Alan Turing Institute and the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) are actively building out their partnership. Both institutions are working on harnessing data science and artificial intelligence to accelerate science and develop and apply new AI methods to challenges in domains such as healthcare.

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FCAI and The Alan Turing Institute signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in March 2019, formally establishing a partnership between the two organisations. Many of the researchers have worked together for a long time, but the MoU makes the collaboration more transparent and formal.

– Having the MoU made it very easy to approach the collaborators and get the work started, without establishing externally funded research projects, says Associate Professor Arto Klami from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki.

Klami himself is involved in two different collaborations: one on the fundamental question of statistical inference and improving computational efficiency by accounting for the geometry induced by models, and another on Virtual Laboratories.

A Virtual Laboratory is an environment for accelerating the process of research and development, for example for drug design or material physics research, through a combination of physical and simulated experiments.

One of the goals of FCAI is to develop tools for AI-assisted decision-making, design and modeling, but being able to do this requires the research environment to be fully digital, with capability for example to simulate the results of hypothetical experiments.

– The Turing, in turn, has extensive experience on digital twins, which are essential building blocks of such a digital environment, and by combining these we were able to formalize the concept of an AI-assisted Virtual Laboratory, says Klami.

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