Lecture Series: "KI – Vision und Wirklichkeit: Risiken, Herausforderungen und Forschungstrends"

After the University of Erfurt and Erfurt University of Applied Sciences have regularly organised joint lecture series on current socially relevant topics in recent years, there will be a joint public lecture series from all of Erfurt's universities in cooperation with the city of Erfurt for the first time in the summer semester of 2024. It is entitled "KI und Social Media: Risiken und Empfehlungen" and will take place on eight dates from 6.15 pm to 7.45 pm in the City Hall. Speakers from the University of Erfurt, the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, the iba – Internationale Berufsakademie, the International University of Applied Sciences and the Health Medical University will shed light on various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) from different scientific perspectives. The series of events will conclude in autumn with a panel discussion at which representatives from the universities will discuss with guests the role AI already plays in research and teaching.

about this lecture:
In the autumn of 2022, the education sector in particular was "stirred up" with the latest AI achievement "ChatGPT": ChatGPT 3.5 - a publicly accessible, free chatbot of the latest Transformer architecture was able to answer a user's questions in a grammatically correct and content-appropriate manner and help them write even longer texts. At first glance, the natural language results generated were impressive, and not just for laypeople. But what would this mean for teaching and examination tasks in the education sector? How are teachers supposed to fulfil their examination mandate and confirm learning success if they are unable to distinguish AI-generated performance from personal performance? Professor Arnold's lecture will deal with this and more. He will start with Leibnitz's vision, which he published in the course of his invention of a mechanical calculating machine for the four basic arithmetic operations, then show milestones of scientific findings by Frege, Russell, Gödel and Turing, among others, and then shed light on their significance in the context of current and future research trends.

All interested parties are cordially invited to attend. Admission is free. Please note, however, that the number of seats is limited to 180.