Artificial intelligence will play a greater role in climate protection in the future.
An important area of application is e-mobility: Here, AI-supported battery management systems can help not only to significantly extend the life of the battery in the car, but also its useful life afterwards, explains Ralf Herbrich.
After working for the tech giants Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, the AI researcher will deal with the use of AI for sustainability in the future.
However, AI can also be very power hungry.
Herbrich: "Training a model that translates from one language into another consumes as much energy as a whole flight from New York to San Francisco." performs incredibly well with less than 20 watts per day.”
Herbrich sees great opportunities for Germany and Europe to build up a competitive advantage in the field of artificial intelligence and climate protection in the future.
"The need is obvious in society, we have the expertise, and you can see that the first investments are going in that direction.
I'm very optimistic about that." In addition to sustainability, Herbrich also talks about his diverse experiences in the podcast, which he gained particularly with the US technology giants.
An example is the detection of fake news and bots in social networks.
AI solutions can certainly help to filter out the 2 to 5 percent of problematic posts from all content, but so far they have “not replaced the history and world knowledge of real people”.
The episode is part of our podcast "Artificial Intelligence".
He explores the questions of what AI can do, where it is used, what it has already changed and what contribution it can make in the future.
With Peter Buxmann and Holger Schmidt, the FAZ brought two proven AI experts on board for the podcast: Both research and teach the potential of AI and its effects on the economy and work at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Peter Buxmann holds the chair for business informatics and has been dealing with the applications of AI, digital transformation and data-based business models for many years.
His podcast partner Holger Schmidt is a digital economist, speaker and author.
His core topics are AI, platform economy and digital business models.
In each episode, the two hosts take up a new aspect of artificial intelligence, explain connections and provide precise classifications.
The episodes are around thirty minutes long and appear monthly on the first Monday.