Subdiscipline

Data Science

Subdiscipline

Data Science

3. July 2024
Guest article by
Krzysztof Janowicz
Rudolphina Experts: AI in Spatial Data Science

GeoAI: Is intelligence spatial?

Large language models or lying language models? What does truth mean in the context of AI? Guest writer Krzysztof Janowicz, Professor of Cartography and Geoinformation Science at University of Vienna, explains why the data AI feeds on will always be deeply geographical, cultural, contradictory. GeoAI is needed to help navigate the spatiotemporal context of knowledge.
4. June 2024
How AI is changing science

Artificial intelligence: The researcher ex machina

Will artificial intelligence revolutionise science? From the universe in the supercomputer to old travelogues from the Orient: Four researchers from the University of Vienna tell us how they use AI and where its limits currently lie.
10. May 2024
Data mining and machine learning

"AI decisions follow pre-determined tracks"

Why artificial intelligence is actually not that intelligent, why most data remain unused and how to keep track of all the rapid developments. Data expert Claudia Plant provides her insights in the Rudolphina interview.
7. May 2024
The future with AI

How to avoid AI Catastrophic Risks

Canadian computer scientist and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is one of the world's foremost experts in AI and deep learning. On 7 May he spoke at the University of Vienna about potential catastrophic scenarios from advanced AI systems and how to prevent them. We had the opportunity to ask him a few questions beforehand.