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Artificial Intelligence: Germany's youngest AI professor dispels the biggest myths

At just 30 years old, Alicia von Schenk has founded the chair for "Economics of AI" at the University of Würzburg. She advises to look beyond the current hype surrounding the technology.

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Artificial Intelligence: Germany's youngest AI professor dispels the biggest myths

Alicia von Schenk, one of Germany's youngest professors, has achieved remarkable success in her academic career. At 30, she became a professor for life at Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, where she heads the chair for "Economics of AI and Human Behavior". Von Schenk, who studied mathematics and economics in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, has a PhD in economics focusing on the impact of AI, which she completed with the highest grade, summa cum laude.

She notes that despite the hype around AI, it is not a single technology, but rather a collection of various tools and models, including statistical tools, language models like ChatGPT, and complex neural networks.

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