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The Decade of Artificial Intelligence

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Despite this, this unstoppable technological achievement is often viewed and discussed with skepticism. Is this development really that different from the innovations of the last 50 years, which have become an integral part of our current life and society? Ingo Hoffmann, Managing Director of AI. Hamburg, explains why it is so important, especially for Europe, to accept and understand AI and, above all, to actively promote the use of machine learning (ML). Benedict Evans compared machine learning to the introduction of the relational database in the 1970s. A helpful comparison.  In the 1970s and 1980s, relational database models fundamentally changed the efficiency of data storage and thus the possibilities of software development. Few people recognized this at first. But the founders of SAP made use of this development. Companies like SAP or Amazon would not have come into being without a relational database. Today, relational databases are used by almost all companies - and often ...

Artificial intelligence: Is ChatGPT a revolution and why?

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  It worries, it fascinates.  We take stock of the mode of operation and the implications of the chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, which has been making a lot of noise in recent months. In recent months, techno news, and beyond, has been agitated by the question of artificial intelligence.  At the heart of the debates, are chatbots, or conversational engines, allowing an Internet user to ask questions and obtain written answers, or more simply to converse with a computer program fed by so-called “generative” artificial intelligence (AI). First, there was ChatGPT, launched by the OpenAI start-up at the end of 2022, then, at the beginning of February, the new test version of Microsoft's search engine, Bing, augmented by a sophisticated chatbot. Sophisticated but also worrying, since several specialized journalists report having had surprising exchanges with Bing.  To a journalist from the New York Times, Bing thus confided destructive impulses as well as his ...

How artificial intelligence is changing our world?

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  How artificial intelligence is changing our world? Today's changes have a new driver that played a subordinate role a few years ago: artificial intelligence.  The question of how this will affect the future world can be summed up in a single sentence: Machines get their own consciousness. This technological change will change and affect our entire world.  And I would like to summarize this in five theses: The age of the digital universe is just beginning: each of us and everything will be intelligently networked with each other. There are no limitations: Intelligent AI systems will invade  all  areas of this world.  The age of machines with their own consciousness begins. Under these framework conditions, a new type of human is emerging with a completely new understanding of the relationships between humans and machines. These novel interactions from digital shadows and intelligent agents to humans and machines is the beginning of the age of hybrid intell...

Dangers of Artificial Intelligence

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  Why artificial intelligence can be dangerous? A study by Oxford University warns that advanced AI could take on a life of its own and turn against its creators in the coming years.  Will technology be mankind's undoing? Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the great technological advances of our time.  Their development is progressing rapidly and the possible uses are increasing.  But in addition to the many advantages of delegating certain tasks to machines, there is also a risk that the intelligent systems will one day become smarter than we are – and turn against us. A scientific team from Oxford University in England and the Australian National University in Canberra used models to calculate how great the risk of this scenario is and what consequences it could have.  Their findings were published  in a study  in AI Magazine.  They paint a worrying picture: According to Michael K. Cohen, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at Ox...