So far, I and others have talked and written about the technological reasons why these scenarios based on imminent AGI or superintelligence seem very unlikely. But we need to go beyond this: Since “we cannot create what we cannot imagine”, we need to spell out concrete future scenarios and turn them into vivid and lively...
How can AI systems be designed to help us living up to our full human potential, rather than undermining core aspects like relationality, responsibility and autonomy? “Pro-human AI tech design”, or “pro-human AI” in short, is the field of study concerned with these questions. But why is it necessary in the first place?...
Don't assess AI risks based on science fiction outlooks - especially as a public servant or manager! Based on my recent TEDx talk, the journal PMM: Public Money & Management asked me to make a case for a more evidence-based AI risk assessment, not influenced by science fiction ideas. It holds specific recommendations for public...
Eines der besten Investments dieser Zeit ist Investition in die eigene KI-Bildung. Wer in Grundzügen versteht, was die Technologie ist und wie sie unter der Haube arbeitet, versteht, was er je Situation von ihr erwarten kann. Diese Investition muss nicht grösser sein als 2 Stunde Zeit - 2 Stunden, um sich mit dem Hintergrund, den...
The stochastic nature of machine learning and its implications for high-consequence AI: Almost all relevant contemporary AI systems are based on ML models that are high dimensional probability density functions, which output the most likely predictions given the input data, leading to likely errors that have decidedly different error patterns than human experts. While the...
How not to fear AI? Yesterday I talked about this at TEDx ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. The journey started already circa two years ago, when I began investigating, and putting into words and talks, how a technically grounded understanding of AI can help mitigate unwarranted fears. KCF - WERTE ORIENTIERT FÜHREN 2023 in...
Künstliche Intelligenz ist in aller Munde und birgt Ängste und Chancen. Eigentlich ist dies nicht unbedingt etwas Neues. Die Anfänge liegen in den 1950er Jahren. Was genau ist Künstliche Intelligenz, welche Formen gibt es und warum wird das Thema aktuell so gehypt? Die Geburtsstunde der KI liegt tatsächlich in den 1950 er Jahren, entsprechend sind...
So OpenAI launched Operator (as did Anthropic with "Computer Use" and Google with "Project Mariner" some time before): What does it mean? It is a large-vision-language-model-backed AI assistant that can to some degree use your computer via the normal graphical user interface to solve certain tasks. Such personal AI assistants that really deserve this name...
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...