Guest commentary: AI is Germany's second chance after digitalization
Germany has a lot of untapped know-how and outdated software codes. AI can change that and turn expertise into scalable products, argues Cisco Germany head Uwe Peter.
Germany's delayed focus on digitalization has negatively impacted its competitiveness, productivity, and innovation. However, artificial intelligence (KI) is now offering a second chance. The country has struggled to translate its academic knowledge, skilled workforce, and strong industry into software, digital business models, and scalable products, but KI is helping to speed up the transfer of complex expertise into applications.
Germany has a large amount of untapped know-how that KI can utilize on a large scale. Many German companies still use outdated software, but KI is making software development faster and more accessible.
Written by urgent.news from Handelsblatt's report — not a translation of it. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
