AI is not in itself instilling fear, nor hope. Rather, it is an amplifier for whatever is in you - your worldview, so to say. Are you hopeful? As an external processor, giving talks helps me a lot to see things more clearly. There was plenty of room for that the last two days. Thank...
Co-moderated a very interesting q&a with Inceptive co-founder and "Attention is all you need" co-author Jakob Uszkoreit this morning. Key takeaways of a session that could have easily went on for hours on a very decent level of technical depth: The supreme importance of computational efficiency in ML (see Sutton's "bitter lesson"). The relative unimportance of ideas...
...as most of it stems from an undue feeling of intimidation in the light of assumed competences of AI that the technlogy does not possess." This was just one outcome of the many discussions after my talk at the BDO Wirtschaftstalk 2025 in Bern today. A full talk on "The AI Advantage" for businesses, and...
We AI scientists like to discuss the intricacies of representationlearning, e.g. to learn better worldmodels: why for example actions need to be taken into account alongside observations to learn truly extensible, interpretable representations. How this could structure the learnt latent space respectively to be actionable, rather than just compressed and predictive. How this helps industrial...
So what is happening in sports? The game has changed, as one could say: Diverse AI methods, from data analysis on wearables' data streams to computer vision methods for electronic line calling in Tennis, are improving many aspects (e.g., athletes' health and fairness of decisions). But there are downsides, too: For example, the VAR (video...
I talked about hypothetical and real risks of AI this week at the University of Cambridge's Westminster College. I would divide AI risks into 2 categories: First, manageable risks. To this I count many of the current issues, e.g., bias in AI systems or the problem of fake content, for which there exist emerging technical...
I recently spoke about the ramifications of AI on our humanity and societies at the Integral Economics CAS of Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg, together with Dr. Oliver Dürr. Some hypotheses: 1) AI is not just a technology & scientific field, it is also a dream-enabling *empty phrase* => dreams or nightmares of superintelligence or extinction are fueld...
Gestern sprach ich in Basel zum Thema KI und Bildung. Ausgehend von der Funktionsweise der Technologie (inkl. o1) und den Anwendungsmöglichkeiten (etwa Erstellen und Zusammenfassen von Inhalt oder als persönlicher Tutor) sind dies meine 5 Thesen: 1. Mit besseren Werkzeugen kommen wir weiter im Leben: grundlegende Fähigkeiten werden jedoch ohne sie erlernt (z.B. Rechnen, was das...
Thoughts on stress reduction, AI, the goodlife, and generativehumans - yesterday in the Schaffhauser Bock. (As part of a newspaper column I sometimes contributed to [in German].)...
Seit seiner Kindheit ist Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann von Computern fasziniert, heute forscht und arbeitet er an der ZHAW an künst licher Intelligenz. Was KI kann, wie wir von und mit ihr lernen kön nen und warum sie sein Gottes bild nicht ins Wanken bringt, erzählt er im Interview. "Thilo, wie bist du zur künstlichen...