For Gabriele Bolek-Fügl, there is no question that artificial intelligence can no longer be avoided: “The situation is comparable to the beginnings of the Internet around the turn of the millennium.” Back then, hardly anyone could have imagined how much the Internet would change the world. “We’re still at the very beginning when it comes to artificial intelligence,” says Bolek-Fügl, entrepreneur, consultant and vice president of Women in AI (global community of female AI experts). At the Digital Days, she will discuss artificial intelligence in a high-calibre group and present Women in AI in a master class.
The expert draws another comparison from the beginnings of the Internet to the current situation: “Even back then there were companies that ignored the Internet. Most of them no longer exist.” On the Internet, if you are not visible on the web, you do not exist. “It will be similar with AI. If you don’t start acquiring the necessary skills now, you will soon be excluded.” These skills include, for example, writing prompts (instructions to the AI programs). In addition, you need a basic understanding of what these applications can and cannot do. “The decisive advantage of AI is the speed with which a large amount of information can be evaluated and used,” says Bolek-Fügl.
Ethics in AI
The expert also sees the benefits for society as a whole that artificial intelligence can have: “As humanity, we find it difficult to solve the major problems we currently have. This requires a lot of data.” People could not collect, process, abstract and recognize patterns in the necessary abundance: “AI is a great addition there.” Bolek-Fügl sees it positively that the ethics of the applications and business models are being discussed intensively at the same time: “If I don’t determine beforehand exactly which principles are to be followed for AI, the result may be unethical.”
Tickets for the OÖNachrichten Digital Days on September 27th and 28th in Linz and further information about the event can be found here.
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