W hat are your thoughts on NorwAI from your perspective?

I believe that NorwAI will be foundational for developing industrial AI solutions in Norway the forthcoming years. NorwAI combines participation from major industrial players and research institutions so both skills, data, relevant use cases and trust are in place. There will be a need for solving some foundational research problems, but hopefully we will manage to put the main effort into applied research and problem solving. A key outcome will be to educate talented professionals and expose them early for the challenges being seen from various industries in Norway.

What are your gains from participating in the NorwAI effort?

Our customers move into digital solutions and we need to be able to reconnect in a digital setting. DNB is investing heavily in digitalization and improved customer services. Our  digital channels and offerings are being even more important going forward and inputting AI will be key to succeed. DNB is in this research initiative focusing on improving our abilities to enhance NLP-capabilities for Nordic languages and deep personalization. This, in combination with trustworthy AI will be a cornerstone in our digital offerings for the future.

Going forward, what are your expectations for NorwAI?

My expectation is that we are able to share our knowledge and findings both internally in NorwAI but also to a broader audience. With this SFI we are able to move from talking about
AI to actually implementing it. I look forward to see AI applications in production, serving our
customers built on the knowledge from NorwAI.