AI on the Fly

AI on the Fly is the project idea of ADICOM Software KG, the friends’ association Förderverein Spiel- und Freizeitplätze der Generationen in Erfurt e.V., the Berlin Prevention Centre of the employers’ liability insurance association Berufsgenossenschaft Rohstoffe und chemische Industrie (BG RCI) and a partner of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF). In the ‘flying classroom’, a decommissioned aeroplane, people are introduced to the possibilities of AI early on. The digital games and virtual training worlds focus on learning and training content in areas ranging from climate protection over accident prevention all the way to explainable AI (XAI). An adaptive AI caters to the players’ needs and facilitates play and learning success.

Why are you a strong team?

We are an interdisciplinary team from all areas of society and everyone is a specialist in their field: an NPO listed in the Guinness Book of Records, an institute from Europe’s largest applied research institution, an employers’ liability insurance association with 35,000 member companies and 1.6 million insured individuals and an SME distinguished as one of the best IT service providers in Germany. We have globally novel approaches which are in high demand in countries like the USA and China.

Explain your idea in three sentences.

The Flying Classroom is a globally unique place where everyone from all generations can experience AI in a user-friendly, entertaining and tangible way – AI on the fly. A variety of time travel games will invite people to explore issues such as climate change, for example. In prevention games, participants will use AI to implement preventive measures to remedy accidents, injuries and other types of damage in the virtual past. The AI will be browser-based and capable of use anywhere.

What makes your idea special?

The Flying Classroom is a unique space for learning and discovery. Our concepts like time travel prevention games are special because they are unique. We address particularly important issues like environmental awareness and accident prevention, we target a particularly large number of people in all age groups and areas of activity and we make the AI experience particularly user-friendly and playful. We enable the particularly wide diffusion of our Flying Classroom AI for all browsers in Germany.

What are the next steps?

We are preparing to systematically develop AI content for the Flying Classroom, which will firstly address all relevant target groups (children, school classes, families, adults with an interest in AI, accident prevention etc.), secondly cover a range of important issues (from environmental awareness to accident prevention in industry) and thirdly enable the tangible discovery and explanation of the properties of AI (adaptivity, explainability). We are also creating a prototype.