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...
...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...