GPT-4 and similar Large Language Models open at a stroke the doors to capabilities previously attributed only to humans. And no sooner do they master this one than they acquire the next. A few days after the release of programming … Continue reading ChatGPT is followed by autonomous AIs. But what exactly are they?
While some call artificial intelligence in the form of ChatGPT ‘horribly bad‘ and don’t fear for their jobs or the future of humanity, others are both excited and scared by the possibilities. What will happen to artists, writers, and my … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence as the 6th Kondratyev Cycle
Researchers from Stanford University and Google Research demonstrated in an entertaining and educational way how ChatGPT can be used in behavioral research. They created a world populated by characters, similar to the popular video game ‘The Sims’ by Electronic Arts. … Continue reading ChatGPT Meets The Sims: How Virtual Characters Turn Human
If you read the headlines and analyses of German-language media, Silicon Valley is dying and the technology companies there are at the end of their rope. The carnage of mass layoffs that have rocked these companies since late last year … Continue reading Bad or Good? Layoffs at Silicon Valley Tech Firms
Some of you may have seen those videos with TikTokers and livestreamers sitting on sidewalks entertaining their audience. And it’s easy to chuckle about it at first. But let’s look at the phenomenon from another angle. Naomi Wu, a Chinese … Continue reading The life of Chinese TikTokers and livestreamers
Only a few weeks and months ChatGPT, DALL-E and other Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) are public, and the discussions do not want to stop. On the one hand, there is amazement at what these AI systems can do and creatively … Continue reading AI: From Painter and Conversationalist to Architect and Mechanical Engineer
As modern men, we always talk loudly about equality and demand action, but we easily overlook the fact that we should start with ourselves. Ashamedly, I had to realize this when the book The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart … Continue reading My Year of Reading Non-Fiction by Female Authors
Creating salmon, beef, pork and chicken from cell cultures is currently the next frontier that startups and scientists are pushing. Die Erzeugung von Lachs, Rind-, Schweine- und Hühnerfleisch aus Zellkulturen ist derzeit das nächste Ziel, das Start-ups und Wissenschaftler vorantreiben. … Continue reading The Future of Food, Part 2: “I’m a Celebrity, Eat Me!”
British presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson, known from shows such as Top Gear, attracted attention this week with a controversy that may now end his career altogether. He had thereby bitten the nettle with a column in The Sun newspaper … Continue reading Jeremy Clarkson, Meghan Markle and a Non-Apology
There is no topic people talk about more often than food. Several times a day they snack, snack, eat, and eat. Food is a social event. People sit together at the table, celebrate together, and go out to dinner on … Continue reading Future of Food Part 1: Extinct Vegetarians and Popular Cannibals