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Eine (digitale) Welt der „Banausen“?

„Denn gerade die sogenannten handwerklichen Fächer sind verrufen und werden verständlicherweise in den Städten sehr verachtet. Denn sie schädigen die Körper der Arbeiter und der Aufseher, weil sie zwingen, zu sitzen und ohne Licht und Luft zu sein, einige sogar, den ganzen Tag vor dem Feuer zuzubringen. Sind die Körper erst verweichlicht, dann werden auch […]

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What contributions can AI make to understanding in the humanities?

After the presentation led by Professor Claus Beisbart from the University of Bern, I became particularly curious about his reference to the notion of “understanding” and how it differs from knowledge. To explore this further, I looked up several resources online and discovered the following:  “Understanding is the knowledge about a subject, situation, etc., or […]

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AI vs. Human? Cutting-Edge Tech Transforming Linguistic Research

Keynotes: AI and Linguistics, Automatization, ASR model, ASR system, OpenAI Whisper, Whisper models, Sociolinguistic datasets Borders Scots is by no means an easy language to understand for someone who has only been taught Standard English in school. Only a couple of years ago, one had to be born into a family whose native language was […]

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What 300-dimensional Fridges can Tell Us about Language

A lecture by Prof. Dr. Dirk Hovy Social media has to do with language, that is beyond a doubt. But can we find new insights on German dialects through it? And what has it to do with 300-dimensional fridges? This is what Dirk Hovy, professor at the University of Bocconi in Milan discussed in his […]

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Biased Data and Policies for Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Anna Jobin)

“Technology is neither good nor bad. Nor is it neutral”  (Kranzberg, 1986, as cited in Jobin, October 2022). Nowadays, everyone has at least heard or read about Artificial Intelligence. This big umbrella term has made an appearance in our world in the last decades. Everyone has different associations with it, be it a dystopian movie, […]

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Anwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf digitale Archive: Vertrauen, Kollaboration und gemeinsame Berufsethik

Ein Vortrag von Dr. Lise Jaillant, Dozentin und Professorin in Digital Humanities an der Loughborough University Vor einigen Jahren analysierte ich im Rahmen einer Forschungsarbeit fünf Kisten voller beidseitig bedruckten Parlamentsprotokolle. Diese Unterlagen wurden mir nach genügender Überzeugungsarbeit per Post zugestellt. Mich interessierte nur das Abstimmungsverhältnis der einzelnen Gesetzesartikel, doch um auf diese Informationen zu […]

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APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ARCHIVES: TRUST, COLLABORATION AND SHARED PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Nowadays, medicine, robotics, stock markets… they’re all governed and orchestrated through artificial intelligence. Collecting, digging, and searching within millions and billions of data is therefore no longer such a complicated process, which requires professionals to spend a lot of hours in study and analysis, but thanks to AI, these processes seem to be completed in […]