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Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf

Mit gerade mal 30 Jahren hat Alicia von Schenk den Lehrstuhl für „Economics of AI“ an der Uni Würzburg gegründet. Sie rät hinter den aktuellen Hype um die Technologie zu schauen.

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Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf

Alicia von Schenk, a young and accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) professor, is debunking common misconceptions about the technology. Having started school at the age of four and obtaining a summa cum laude PhD in economics at 30, von Schenk is now leading a unique chair at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, focusing on the economic and behavioral impacts of AI. At just 30 years old, she is one of Germany's youngest professors, and her achievements have earned her a reputation as a prodigy.

Von Schenk emphasizes that there is no single AI. Instead, she explains, AI is a broad term encompassing various technologies, from basic statistical tools to complex machine learning models, such as generative language models like ChatGPT, and intricate neural networks. She criticizes the oversimplification of AI into a single concept, stating, "That's too undifferentiated for me."

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