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

Buy it now! Now! All of them!

๐—˜๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ! This time with a clear “call-to-action”, blunt and direct. No long fussing around, preparing, analyzing, “picking up customers” or initiating. No next world-changing, mind-altering experience or the lure of limitless wealth, intellect, knowledge or eternal 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

Microsoft – 80 billion for AI in 6 months!

๐— ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜ ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ป๐—ฎฬˆ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐Ÿฒ ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐Ÿด๐Ÿฌ ๐— ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—จ๐—ฆ-๐——๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—ž๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€! A single private company thus invests around 250 times as much money in 6 months as the entire European Horizon program for AI funding, which has been Continue Reading

Studying 50% faster thanks to AI – and what do we learn from this?

“๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜’๐˜ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด 50 ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ, ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฐฬˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ.”– Dr. Sven Schรผtt, CEO of the IU Group, in an interview with McKinsey. ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต! What on earth does such a notion of Continue Reading

“If a computer scientist and a…”

“๐—จ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜…” ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜‡๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฎฬˆ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ธ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜, ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐˜€, ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ช๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป. ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. ๐—ฉ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ž๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป…. And not only because of the respective hourly rates, but also because of Continue Reading