When teenagers develop their own artificial intelligence application
Earlier this month, the first round of the Swiss Artificial Intelligence Competition for Teenagers came to a successful end: The Zurich IT-days set the stage for the award ceremony that honored the winning teams. Read on to learn which ideas the young coders have brought to life with AI.
This first round of the AI competition featured a winning team in the category "Creative Coding": Emmelot and Lilli, both from Kantonsschule Wohlen, demonstrated a particularly creative use of AI. The winners in the category "AI for Good", reserved for teams that use AI to add ethical value to society, attend Institut auf dem Rosenberg in St. Gallen.
Here comes your perfect outfit
Team Beatbox Freestyle has developed an Artificial Intelligence that suggests the appropriate outfit for the current weather. Just enter your location and the AI suggests what your outfit should look like that day. Do you rather need a warm sweater, or is a light shirt in combination with long pants enough? Or maybe a dress with a jacket? You don't have to worry about that anymore.
Cordelia, Maria and Alexey from Institut auf dem Rosenberg want to make it easier for us to know how severe or benign an ongoing infection of the respirational tract is. In the future, their Home Health Predictor Checkup tells you whether to stay at home or go and see a doctor. From home, your answers to a few easy yes/no questions assign symptoms to one of several viruses. Their AI then makes a recommendation as to whether the affected person should isolate him/herself, for example, or see a doctor. Checkup helps you to take the right precautions to better protect yourself and others.
TV presenter Gülsha Adilji hosted the award ceremony, together with Lisa Wagner, project lead for the Swiss Artificial Intelligence Competition. Gülsha asked the finalists about their motivation to code and learn about artificial intelligence, how they went about realizing their bold ideas and what kinds of pitfalls they had to deal with when developing their first very own AI application.
Visibly impressed by the young students' ideas, drive and perseverance, the audience applauded enthusiastically to celebrate the achievements of teams Rosenberg and Beatbox Freestyle.
Award Ceremony of the first edition of the Swiss Artificial Intelligence Competition
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The audience eagerly awaits the presentation of the young coders' projects. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
TV-moderator Gülsha Adilji hosted the ceremony. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
Lisa Wagner, project lead for the Swiss Artificial Intelligence Competition, explains the scope and goal of the program. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
Showcasing the winning teams' work. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
Team Beatbox Freestyle is interviewed by Gülsha Adilji. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
Team Rosenberg interviewed by Gülsha Adilji. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
Definitely a moment worth remembering and celebrating. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger) -
The winning teams with moderator Gülsha Adilji and project manager Lisa Wagner. (ETH Zürich / Andreas Eggenberger)
Inspiring young minds to create their own AI application
The Swiss Artificial Intelligence Competition encourages students to use artificial intelligence creatively. Participants submit a self-selected project for the competition in which they tackle a socially or scientifically relevant problem using machine learning. The Competition is initiated and hosted by ETH AI Center, the Canton of Zurich, and the Canton of Schwyz.
The animated videos showcasing the winning teams' ideas were created by external page Lucy Kägi and external page Giulia Martinelli. The video interviews of the participants were produced by external page Oliver Schmocker.
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