Dad – why are you stroking your phone?

๐˜—๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ข – ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜‹๐˜ถ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ? ๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™š๐™จ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฏ ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™™๐™–๐™ข๐™–๐™ก๐™จ ๐Ÿฎ-๐™Ÿ๐™–ฬˆ๐™๐™ง๐™ž๐™œ๐™š ๐™๐™ค๐™˜๐™๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฏ๐™ช ๐™ข๐™ž๐™ง ๐™œ๐™š๐™จ๐™–๐™œ๐™ฉ, ๐™–๐™ก๐™จ ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™ข๐™š๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™จ ๐™„๐™‹๐™๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™œ๐™š๐™ ๐™–๐™ช๐™›๐™ฉ ๐™๐™–๐™—๐™š. Many of us can still remember the time before the iPhone and even experienced phones with Continue Reading

140 million in funding – New EU projects launched

Last week, the EU launched a series of new funding programs worth โ‚ฌ140 million, which could also be of particular interest to German SMEs: – Quantum computing: https://lnkd.in/exEapJnQ– Virtual worlds: https://lnkd.in/eCZVwqmk– Generative AI: https://lnkd.in/exEapJnQ It mainly deals with digital skills Continue Reading

Can I be bought? Of course!

After a lecture, a participant recently asked me: “๐˜ฌ๐˜ฐฬˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ช๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ? ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ถฬˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ถฬˆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ฉ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ…”. Strange question, I thought…All right, to clear up any misunderstandings: ๐—๐—”, ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ธ๐—ผฬˆ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต “๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ป”. ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต Continue Reading

Waste of energy action figure

I was horrified to discover the next (hopefully-not) trend on LinkedIn today! Users are now starting to animate their ChatGPT-generated ActionFigures with Sora. I admit, it looks fun, is fascinating and invites you to play. ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ: ๐—ž๐—œ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ! ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ฑ Continue Reading

AI – when quick fixes eat up the future

Have you ever thought about it: currently, junior developers are being thrown out because the AI can develop better. Senior developers are then only supposed to monitor the AI results…. ๐—ž๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜‡๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ด – ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜, ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น, ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐˜€๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—น. ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป….? We Continue Reading

AI knowledge is no longer optional

It is no longer a question of “whether” we should deal with AI. Just as it is no longer a question of whether “this Internet will really catch on”. ๐—ž๐—œ ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, ๐—ž๐—œ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‡๐˜, ๐—ž๐—œ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป!๐—”๐—น๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ Continue Reading

AI – the elephant in the room

“๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ” – ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ฎฬˆ๐˜€๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ณ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ธ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป. ๐—˜๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ผ, ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ž๐—œ ๐—ธ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป (๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ณ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—•๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ธ Continue Reading

Into the new semester

๐—”๐˜‚๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐—ป’๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ! Tomorrow is the start of lectures for me again and I am really looking forward to the next 12 weeks at the PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Gรถttingen. This time there are four exciting topics Continue Reading

Mergers & Acquisitions in times of AI…

๐˜’๐˜-๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ “๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ” (in good Bavarian) and are currently becoming objects of desire just as often. However, in the age of AI, company valuations are no longer as simple and clear as they used to be (and they Continue Reading