Anja Karliczek, Federal Minister of Education and Research, visited the Competence Center Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr (ML2R) together with journalists on 9 July. The Minister took the opportunity to experience practical applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning live and to try them out for herself: She met robots that make AI and ML comprehensible in a playful way, discovered AI systems that analyse spoken language, improve satellite images and make autonomous driving safer, and a swarm of drones buzzed over her. This gave the Minister impressions of outstanding projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the ML2R.

The CRC 876 was represented at this event with a small accompanying exhibition, which the Minister visited together with Katharina Morik.