There has never been so much disruption. Events are coming thick and fast in the field of artificial intelligence. Open AI launches the fourth generation of ChatGPT, equipped with new capabilities. Microsoft and Google want to build AI into their software. The "copilot" moves into Outlook and Word, so that you can get complex tasks off the ground with just a single command, because the AI gets the necessary information itself from the calendar, emails and Microsoft Teams. The Midjourney image generator, presented here a week ago, is also available in an improved version. It makes it even harder to distinguish artificial from real images. Nuance, the speech recognition specialist, brings disruption to the hospital: Dragon Ambient Experience Express automatically handles written documentation after the doctor has had a patient interview.
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They make it easy, they tackle, push objections aside and also enter the market with unfinished software to show the potential and opportunities: American and some Asian companies are showing a rocket pace in the development of AI systems. What about Europe? Some reports of the last few days show where the journey is going in this country: The German Ethics Council spoke out on Monday for strict limits on the use of artificial intelligence. Stop words characterize the Council's report: discrimination, rights of appeal, intensive use of data, rampant surveillance in real time, automated prejudices. The Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection is also calling for legal rules and limits to the use of AI. It could lead to the intensification of prejudice and discrimination.
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European universities are researching topics such as discrimination and misogyny caused by artificial intelligence. The Tagesschau criticizes on its website: "there are an above-average number of white men who develop artificial intelligence." The development teams are "not diverse enough". The trade union-affiliated Hans Böckler Foundation calls for restrictions on artificial intelligence in occupational health and safety legislation. This is because the risk of accidents is increasing "because robots are increasingly autonomous and thus hardly predictable thanks to AI." But Europe has once again shown American companies the right thing. They must now make swift improvements, otherwise they will be banned and strictly regulated. At least that's what Europe can do. It can make you queasy. But will the world wait for us?