CA Southern Africa has announced CA Technologies’ participation in scientific research to discover how Internet of Things (IoT) applications can use a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) known as ‘deep learning’ to imitate human decisions.
The research will also explore how to prevent that AI-based decisions are not producing biased results.
The three-year research project is named Adaptive and Secure Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Architectures (ALOHA).
“The future of all technologies will include AI and deep learning in some way,” said Otto Berkes, Chief Technology Officer, CA Technologies.
“The expansion of complex, multi-layered IoT systems bring both security and software development challenges that AI and autonomous computing are uniquely positioned to address.”
Until now, deep learning AI algorithmic processing has largely been limited to expensive, high performance servers. ALOHA will study the use of these deep learning algorithms on small, low-power consumption devices such as video cameras, sensors and mobile devices.
“ALOHA aims to better understand how applications running on IoT devices with growing computational power can learn from experience and react autonomously to what happens in a surrounding environment,” said Victor Muntés, Vice President of Strategic Research, CA Technologies.
“We will bring our security expertise to avoid data poisoning risks that could lead to bias in AI-based decisions, while our agile expertise will help to efficiently embed the use of deep learning in the software development process.”
