The key to understanding the world

What can artificial intelligence really do? Will it create prosperity for all, cure cancer and solve the climate challenge? Or are our expectations of technology exaggerated? One of the world’s most renowned AI researchers looks beyond the current hype and reveals where the true potential lies.

AI research is at a turning point. ChatGPT and its peers can already generate impressive texts and images, but Sepp Hochreiter has a much more ambitious vision: an AI that can simulate complex real-world processes in a matter of seconds on a computer, from the behaviour of materials to the effects of medication and climate change. AI simulation could revolutionise industrial production and help solve the major problems of our time. For Hochreiter, it is the key to understanding the world. Hochreiter’s architecture of neural networks has already changed the field of artificial intelligence once. “What Can Artificial Intelligence Do?” now sketches out the future of an AI that not only delivers groundbreaking new insights but also changes our world for the better.