Robotergesetze

Those people who still answer the phone may know that feelings: As soon as I hear a voice I think about what the other person looks like. There is Google, yes, but some people actually manage to hide their appearance online. Anyone who feels addressed, may like to contact me and teach me this art. Anyway, ...

Creativity is such a thing. Most people would say it's a human thing. AI developers would say that may be true, but that does not mean that it's not an AI thing, too. So I did a self-test: me against AI. I wanted to find out if I'm more creative than a machine. One song was ...

In April 2019 the Leverkusen pharmaceutical company Bayer was attacked by a possibly Chinese hacker group with the so-called "Winnti" malware. The attackers were highly professional. They had infected systems at the interface from the intranet to the Internet and tried to penetrate deeper from there. Apparently Winnti could not steal information yet. But Winnti ...

Whoever has installed the game "Planet Coaster" on an average computer and has placed a self-built roller coaster next to the other one in his amusement park, will get jerked at some point. The otherwise fast ride stops every two seconds, the sound stops, and you have no choice but to either shut down the ...

A life is said to have been saved by Watson, after all: In 2016, he was presented the case of a Japanese patient on whose condition the doctors puzzled. Only the AI ​​system of the IT company IBM was able to diagnose a rare leukemia, the woman was cured. That’s exactly what IBM promised. The ...

In some German clinics it is already a common view: The patient lies on the operating table. Above him are four sterile robot arms. A few feet away from the table, the surgeon sits in a kind of cockpit, concentrating his head in an opening in the apparatus, where he sees images of the patient’s ...

Preparing a case is a complex task for lawyers. They have to examine laws and judgments, collect evidence and develop strategies that are tailored to the presiding judge. "Everlaw" is a software that helps American lawyers with these tasks. It is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can read documents - and locate those that ...

Isaac Asimov did not only deal with robot laws. One of his most famous works is the Foundation Triology. The hero is a mathematician named Hari Seldon who develops psychohistory as a science. Seldon assumes that due to the mass of mankind - it populates an entire galaxy - empirical-statistical methods can be used to ...