’The Potential of AI Makes Me Optimistic’

Roman Kern sees the possibilities of artificial intelligence but also knows which challenges still await. Image Source: Know Center - By Falko Schoklitsch Roman Kern conducts research in artificial intelligence at the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science at TU Graz. A conversation about the future of AI and general concerns about the topic. News+Stories: How would you explain to a layperson what artificial intelligence is?. Roman Kern: Historically, in the middle of the last century, people began to think that machines could solve similar tasks as humans. The idea of the well-known Turing test comes from this time. The idea was that you have created an artificial intelligence that is also truly intelligent if you can communicate with it without noticing whether it is a human or a machine.