AI - curse or blessing? – It divides minds and experts. Visionaries like Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking have already urgently warned of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). "AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization," said the British astrophysicist a good year and a half ago. Ray Kurzweil, on the other hand, predicts a productive coexistence of man and machine. What's more, Google's tech boss is convinced that by the end of this century it will replace humans as the crown of creation. The fact is, hardly any other technology will change our world in a comparable way in the coming years. AI applications have long since arrived in everyday life and the working world, from chatbots to intelligent assistants, machine learning to autonomous driving. And in the worst case with the so-called killer robots, as autonomous weapon systems.
The market forecasts are rolling over. In a 2018 study, PwC, for example, sees the global potential for AI applications at 15,7 trillion US dollars. US market research institutes such as Forrester or Gartner put market growth at 50 to 60 percent within the next three to eight years.
It is also a fact that AI raises serious ethical, regulatory and social questions. A key question that needs to be clarified away from fascinating technology is: where is the human being?
Interesting Links
The AI portal for beginners
https://kinsights.de/
Thematic portal AI of the BDI
https://bdi.eu/themenfelder/digitalisierung/kuenstliche-intelligenz/
AI Federal Association
https://ki-verband.de/
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
https://dfki.de/web/
Holger Volland
http://holgervolland.com/