Looking at the whole picture
We live in a time when not only the future, but also our idea of the future is rapidly changing. Digital technologies are increasingly influencing our world. On the one hand, this makes the...
Fact Check: AI, machine learning and the black box
The terms artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are often used interchangeably, which does injustice to the development in the field. AI is already over 60 years old. Initially, it usually meant machine...
Participating instead of watching
It is obvious that the next generation of “digital natives” – people who have not known a world without the Internet – have a completely different approach to algorithmic and AI-driven predictions, influences and...
Steering the predictors: it‘s up to us to decide
Advanced data analytics allows researchers to recognize patterns, predict outcomes, assign probabilities. Robots equipped with artificial intelligence can read human expressions and feelings, diagnose disease, simulate a personal response, recommend remedies or actions.
What ramifications...
Dealing responsibly with technological progress
How much technological progress does society tolerate? Will artificial intelligence, self-learning algorithms, advancing digitization and robotics moving forward make our future truly predictable? And what will all this do to us? In two days...
Susanne Gaschke: There is only one right
It’s very difficult to recruit younger readers to paper because the propaganda against papers was “whoever reads papers is not up to date technologically”. But nowadays we see that there are also some advantages...
Michal Kosinski: You are the product
If you are a heavy user of a smartphone, that’s how you are leaving your digital footprints. If you throw your smartphone away, you are excluding yourself from social networks, from the ability to...
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann: Robots support us humans
Nadine was recognized as the most realistic robot in the world because she is really a copy of me and my daughters and the second thing that was new is that she can simulate...
Vaccination works
Mortality from measles disease varies, depending to medical care between 0.1% with very good and 25% with poor medical care. The World Health Organization has set the goal of eradicating measles worldwide by 2020....
Measuring the Future
Is human behavior becoming more and more predictable through the combination of intelligent algorithms and the digital footprint? What are the consequences of this development? These questions were at the center of discussions at...
