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30.09.2024
Björn Ommer receives the German AI Award
LMU Newsroom article
Our PI Björn Ommer has won 2024 German AI Prize awarded by the newspaper WELT. This award in the category “Innovation” is given for groundbreaking achievements in the research and development of artificial intelligence. The jury singled out the …
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30.09.2024
DSSGx Munich 2024 Closing Event
A short recap
For two months, the DSSGxMunich-Team supported two projects with the UN International Organization for Migration’s Global Data Institute, and the National park administration Bayerischer Wald. Last week, they presented their results at the BAdW.
18.09.2024
Digdeep Podcast: Fahrerlos in San Francisco: Wie weit sind Robotaxis?
News from the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode, we take a ride in a Waymo robotaxi through the busy streets of San Francisco. Since 2022, autonomous vehicles without safety drivers have been allowed to operate and transport passengers in the city. Waymo has about 300 of these cars …
©RP
16.09.2024
MCML JRG Leader Benjamin Lange about Risk and Opportunities of AI
Digital Ethics Summit of the Rheinische Post (RP)
MCML JRG Leader Benjamin Lange will be a speaker at this year’s Digital Ethics Summit organized by the Rheinische Post (RP). He will join the panel “AI – Opportunities and Risks” as an expert.
16.09.2024
MCML member Ludwig Bothmann is featured in a documentary by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
Too Much Going On in the Forest? Using AI to Track Animals and Humans
MCML member Ludwig Bothmann is featured in a documentary by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) titled: “Too Much Going On in the Forest? Using AI to Track Animals and Humans (orig. Zu viel los im Wald? Mit KI auf den Spuren von Tieren und Menschen)”. In Bavaria, where there is a legal right to freely access nature, encounters between humans and animals …
13.09.2024
MCML PI Björn Ommer nominated for Deutscher Zukunftspreis
LMU Newsroom
The development of the Stable Diffusion generative AI technology has garnered Björn Ommer a nomination for the prestigious prize awarded by the President of Germany. On November 27, 2024, it will be announced whether his project, “Democratizing Generative AI – Stable Diffusion from Development to Practice,” will prevail against two other nominees. …