For a moment, everything goes quiet. Not only the noise fades, but even the faintest bodily sensations seem to disappear. Does it sound like paradise?…
Posts published in “Society & Ethics”
You’re standing in front of a watchmaker’s window, watching the precise sweep of the hands and the quiet choreography of interlocking gears. Every movement looks…
You pull an old photograph from a stack and it stops you cold. It’s faded and timeworn, unmistakably from another era—yet the street looks like…
Imagine a courtroom. The prosecutor presents evidence; an algorithmic risk score enters the picture. A verdict is reached—and then appealed. Then comes the uncomfortable question:…
It might surprise you that your choice of a specific cereal box is often predetermined before you even lay eyes on it. The shelf layout,…
In a dusty workshop in Prague, surrounded by tangled cables and blinking displays, a quiet revolution is unfolding. It’s not about building a new humanoid…
In 1770, Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled his ‘Turk’—a mechanical chess player that fascinated Europe. Although it was later revealed to be a hoax featuring a…
Words have become the new programming language. Instead of syntax and algorithms, a well-formulated sentence is enough – and modern generative (often multimodal) models will…
Silence is usually understood as nothing more than the absence of sound. Yet it also points to something deeper: an inner space in which thoughts,…
Modern language models have reached the stage where they can be run locally on end devices. They represent a tool capable of analyzing complex texts,…