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[UPDATED] Article out: AI-assisted Process Visualization

My article on AI-assisted Process Visualization is now available in print and as E-Paper: iX-Magazin issue 03’25. Its pre-release on heise+ has sparked a remarkable amount of feedback from readers worldwide. As questions went beyond the scope of the initial publication, I decided to compile a Q&A in English to share select follow-ups. This ... Read more

OpenAI Operator Testdrive

Operator, the browser-controlling agent, is available in most countries where ChatGPT is available except for the EU/EEA. My notes: when tasking it with something, it translates the request to a search on Microsoft Bing. The first result is visited - and it works from there the UI is a view of the remote browser and a ChatGPT conversation p... Read more

AI and Agency: Navigating Choice and Responsibility

Agency has increasingly become a critical dimension in discussions about artificial intelligence. While AI’s rapidly growing capabilities promise convenience and efficiency, they also raise essential questions about autonomy, choice, and responsibility. Two concepts from theoretical computer science—Automata Theory and Entropy—can help illuminat... Read more

AI Search & AI Distortion

From a BBC report, coining the term “AI Distortion”: Our researchers tested market-leading consumer AI tools – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini […] The team found ‘significant issues’ with just over half of the answers generated by the assistants. The AI assistants introduced clear factual errors into around a fifth of... Read more

RAG in practice

Studies by Salesforce Research and Google Deepmind, as well as own experiments, have previously cast fundamental doubt on RAG. Now, Richard Meng came forward and shared practical confirmation: We’ve spoken with 30 companies who developed RAG-based chatbots on PDF documents. Every single one has failed The problems he shares are familiar: ... Read more