AI workers transform generative AI from being a toy and a niche application into genuine productivity drivers. Let’s take a closer look at how this works, and how it could completely change the way we do business. A Letter from the CEOs In January this year, the CEOs of the world’s largest companies met in Davos. A […]
How Will We Instruct AI in the Future? Just as we finally started to master the art of prompt engineering after months and years, some people are already saying that we are riding a terminally ill horse. They argue that prompt engineering, as we know it, will become irrelevant in as little as 6 months, […]
Prompt Engineering Course: The Art of the Prompt. Prompts, prompts, prompts. I learned it all the hard way, so that you don’t have to. Recently, I curated a long list of list of prompts — feel free to check them for inspiration. I’ve tried an endless amount of ideas with real AI powered applications. Some worked well, some not […]
A well-crafted prompt is magic. At least a little bit. Not the abracadabra kind that makes software glitches disappear, mind you. But with just a subtle tweak of the words in the textual tapestry you can: This, my friend, is prompt engineering. What’s the spell? Can you read up and learn it? There are a […]
Looking back … three years ago, GPT-2 was one of the most advanced language models on the market. Yet it would still get the easiest conversations wrong. It didn’t just hallucinate, it produced unstructured and nonsensical responses. Now ChatGPT (including the integrated GPT-4 model) can answer questions across an extremely wide field of topics, ranging from […]
The ultimate curated list of autonomous AI agents: complete with tools, resources and examples ChatGPT and many of the other current foundation models are great. They can answer innumerable questions, create AI art that rivals human masterpieces, analyze photos, and in some cases, they even show what we would call intelligence. But there’s one simple […]
Oh, ChatGPT! Some 5 months on the market and a not so tiny ecosystem has developed all on its own, with lists of prompts, tips, APIs, use cases, extensions, success stories and failures. ChatGPT is the first true foundation model for the mass-market. Some of the posts, blogs, and articles dealing with this new phenomenom, […]
Not everything was better in the past. At least not when it came to designing digital touchpoints. One requirement often heard was: “Implement this specification. Make it look a little pretty, too.” So the goal was not to make the user or customer happy, but to make the product manager or his boss happy, and […]
Many of us use GPT-3 or other LLMs in a SaaS way, hosted by their vendors. But how is it like to run a model of the size of GPT-3 in your own cloud?
In the last few month, some promising language models went live challenging GPT-3. I tested a few like these platforms and threw data at them. Always with questions in mind like: Can other models compete with GPT-3? Or are they even better? All platforms bring special features that are sometimes difficult to compare: For example, […]
This article is based on my presentation at the 5th Annual International Conference CURPAS on Autonomous Systems at the Center for Aeronautics and Astronautics (Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) in Wildau, Germany. How do we interact with the machine sphere? Many autonomous systems – for example, the bus that drives through Tegel without a driver, […]
The pace of development in the field of conversational agents and language models is accelerating rapidly. The new technological possibilities for interacting with machines via our voice raise new questions about the future of natural language interfaces. This is also accompanied by the question of how to teach machines to talk and understand natural language. […]
What if every email, every PDF with an order, an invoice, a complaint, a request for an offer or a job application could be translated into machine-readable data? And could then be automatically processed by the ERP / CRM / LMS / TMS …? Without programming a special interface. Sounds magic? It does have some […]
Computers are insanely good at storing information in an orderly fashion. But in order to make this information usable for humans, appropriate interfaces are needed. Early in the history of computers, research began on one of the most convenient interfaces: The user asks the computer a question in natural language and the computer returns the […]
Chatbots and conversational agents are not the same thing. There are still frequent confusions, ambiguities and misconceptions. In this article, I would like to clear up these terminologies, because even though everyone has heard of chatbots and conversational agents in some way by now, there is still (conceptual) confusion. The subtle difference between chatbots and […]
BIG PICTURE started collaboration with Xiaoice in 2020. For the past year we’ve been working on several projects in this area.
AI Beings close the gap to provide social interaction with human beings in spaces where there is no possibility to have a conversation with a human. AI beings can serve as an intelligent partner for the driver and accompany him in an entertaining manner. Our services enable the passenger to have lively conversations with AI beings in the car, instead of simply directing the cars functions via voice commands.
Can you imagine tech nerds on stage? Well we can and we were. Well, almost – it’s not us on stage, but “Oracle”, our Conversational Agent. Collaborating with Münchner Kammerspiele we developed Oracle for their play under the same name. Together with artist Markus Selg, Susan Kennedy, questioned the space of reality on stage. Blurring the […]
Wouldn’t it be great to have some indicators in advance long before you burn an insane amount of moneythrough team building, product development and marketing. Is that possible? Yes and no. You can never be certain in advance, if a startup will be successful. It depends on a variety of parameters such as team, competition, fundraising abilities and sometimes it’s just coincidences: Meeting the right person at the right […]
Jochen, can you briefly tell us what you did, and which was your approach in building a startup? Was it an accelerator, incubator or more of an innovation unit with internal employees that sprang from? Jochen Wolf: At the Innogy Innovation Hub – now part of the e.on Group as Future Energy Ventures – we tried to bring […]
Our spin-off hippybees brings sustainability to agriculture and color as well as biodiversity on the fields. Healthy and wild cultivation of plants has been already established in permaculture gardens and can now be adapted through Digital Innovation in Agriculture. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence are part of the team in hippybees’ vision of the future, offering […]
Who are you and what do you do? Robert Köbrunner: We are DIZZBO. In 2018, we founded this startup with the goal of revolutionizing logistics, namely with an online platform that automatically matches supply and demand in real time. Peter Baumgartlinger: We launched in April 2019, and since then we have grown strongly in terms […]
Crimescene: an office loft in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Large window front, clinker walls, lots of glass The perpetrators and victims: The entire team. BREAKING NEWS: “A clear case of Stockholm syndrome: after the staff fell victim to a workshop lasting several hours on a Friday afternoon, several people still wanted to try their hand at flipchart conversations […]