I recently received an obviously 100% AI-generated answer to an important and serious question from a very esteemed colleague. And was at a loss at first.

๐—ช๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€? ๐—ช๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜‚๐—บ? I have to admit, it felt pretty strange! When my counterpart “doesn’t even bother” to respond personally to my request and instead comes back with chat-GPT-generated, 0815-soft-spoken content with no opinion Continue Reading

๐—ž๐—œ ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—œ๐—ง-๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ!

AI is a company-wide transformation that is supported in small parts by IT. Melanie Kleemann has written a good article on this today(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/90-der-unternehmen-scheitern-diesen-fehlern-bei-melanie-kleemann-5m6ye/?trackingId=zf9bLEmp84KLxTH4TAScRA%3D%3D), which I am happy to endorse. In my view, there are ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ถ ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐˜๐—ฒ that every company must Continue Reading

That’s something to be proud of!

๐——๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป!Yesterday, “my” students from the PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Gรถttingen were able to present their results of a practical project “AI in Journalism” directly at SAT.1 NRW in Dortmund. ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถฬˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ (…. ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐรŸ Continue Reading

What does a PFH professor do in Brussels?

Yesterday was the day again…Meeting of ๐—”๐—ฅ/๐—ฉ๐—ฅ-๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป in Brussels. It was great to meet many friends from the industry in person again and to discuss and advance the topic of AR/VR in a European context. ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ… ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—œ๐—–๐—› ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ Continue Reading

AI hype in 4 phases

๐—ฃ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ž๐—œ-๐—›๐˜†๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐˜€….: ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ผฬˆ๐—ป๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—˜๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‡ Employees are starting to use AI for their work. Unasked, uncontrolled, uncontrolled. Not strategically, not “intentionally”. They do it anyway to get their work done in less time. More free time! Better work/life balance. Continue Reading

EU AI Act comes into force!

So now the time has come… As of today, February 2, the EU AI Act (also known as the AI Regulation) has come into force! ๐——๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—จ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‡๐˜ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ณ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜, ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฎรŸ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜‚๐—บ๐˜‡๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ž๐—œ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ป. For example, Continue Reading

Machine learning lectures – a “downer”!

๐—ก๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—น๐—น – ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐˜, ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€-๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ฅ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐Ÿ˜‚! One student commented that the current topics and developments (technical, ethical, political, legal, etc.) had always “dragged him down” in many Continue Reading

Programming internship with Chat GPT – Grade 1.0!

๐—œ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—บ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ธ๐˜‚๐—บ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ณ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ž๐—œ-๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผฬˆ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐Ÿญ.๐Ÿฌ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป! Why? 1. we need to engage with the possibilities of new technologies openly, ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ 2. the student has engineered excellent prompts and used AI Continue Reading

Where has our German engineering gone…?

๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ “๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด” ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ธ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜€๐˜, ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ (๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ป๐—ธ๐˜๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ) ๐—จ๐—บ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‡๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผฬˆ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—จ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ฟ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป. I fear we have forgotten some of this…. In Continue Reading