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.
Alicia von Schenk has always been ahead of her peers. At the age of four, she started school, and at 15, she earned a 1.0 high school diploma. She pursued mathematics and economics at universities in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, eventually earning her PhD in economics with a focus on AI's impact, graduating summa cum laude. At just 30 years old, she became a professor on a lifelong contract, though the average age for first appointments in Germany is nearly 44 years.
Currently, von Schenk heads the Chair of "Economics of AI and Human Behavior" at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg, one of the few programs in Germany that specifically focuses on the economic and behavioral effects of AI. She is considered a prodigy among the country's youngest professors. How did von Schenk achieve such early success, and what does she think about the current AI boom?
Von Schenk emphasizes that there is not just one AI, despite the massive hype. She describes AI as a broad term encompassing various technologies, ranging from simple statistical tools to sophisticated neural networks in machine learning. "I call them all AI," she explains. "It's too undifferentiated for me."
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