2023-12-01 14:37:48
Mainz/Kaiserslautern – She writes texts for us and helps with research: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the vision for the future. Politicians are enthusiastic and support it. Science warns of the dangers.
An AI center planned by the federal government is being built in Kaiserslautern. The German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is already based there.
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One focus: to bring science and business, both users of the new technology, even closer together. “Every economic participant must use AI to remain competitive,” says Federal Digital Minister Volker Wissing (53, FDP).
The new center will also develop control and testing systems to create trust in the technology
He warns against leaving AI development to foreign countries. Otherwise Germany would become “fundamentally dependent”.
Wissing sees the technology as self-perpetuating, as it is constantly improving itself. That’s why Wissing doesn’t believe in regulations. Exception: projects that are not ethically justifiable. For example, if the AI were to compile ratings on the social behavior of users.
Science does not view AI as completely optimistic. A current study from Mainz universities speaks of a “dangerous stalemate” between people and technology.
600 English-speaking participants were evaluated. It was about their assessment of the credibility of humanly created texts on the one hand – and artificially created ones on the other.
The machine is more convincing, the person is smarter
Prof. Dr. Martin Huschens, business informatics at Mainz University of Applied Sciences: “Our study revealed some really surprising findings. It turned out that the participants rated AI-generated and human-generated content as similarly credible.”
But that’s not all: “What’s even more fascinating is that participants attributed greater clarity and appeal to AI-generated content.”
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In plain language: Machines write better than humans. But, according to the researchers: AI has a high risk of errors, misunderstandings and “hallucinatory” behavior. This means that humans think better than machines. Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz: “Machines don’t know, they just guess statistically.”
And as a user, people have to classify these differences independently. But because he can no longer distinguish between humans and machines, this is exactly what becomes a problem. That is why Prof. Rothlauf calls for “a mandatory labeling of machine-generated knowledge in the future.”
That’s why Kaiserslautern is the German “Silicon Valley”
The Palatinate is now home to a large number of high-tech facilities, also thanks to state funding. Example DFKI: More than 100 spin-offs with over 2,500 jobs. In addition to AI laboratories, there are nine competence centers in Kaiserslautern. For example, on topics such as autonomous driving, system security, smart agriculture and support systems for everyday life.
Another heavyweight is the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. The only TU in RLP.
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