The Decade of Artificial Intelligence
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 ...