Embedded AI:

More and more artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in industrial applications. However, Germany is not a global pioneer in AI. What needs to happen so that Germany doesn’t miss the boat?

Viacheslav Gromov, AITAD: As with many other technologies, we in Germany tend to see potential dangers first instead of the opportunities that arise from them. As a result, we want to protect ourselves preventively in politics and society. In my view, this is the wrong approach. Openness to technology and optimism would be important. Of course, we need to provide more information about AI and clearly highlight the opportunities. If we don’t do this, the only thing left is escalation: it has to really hurt before we make a major transformation.

However, SMEs and large corporations have been shaken up by current global developments and are now working intensively on AI – but it may be a long time before this has penetrated politics and society.

Overall, our conditions are not ideal, with data protection and other regulations (key point: data availability), high energy costs (key point: server operation) and a lack of social or political direction. The economy and society actually need to understand that global competition in AI is still volatile and that we need to focus on this opportunity in a targeted manner – with a conscious decision to forego other, rather unrealistic ambitions.

Read the entire interview at elektroniknet.de (in german)