UMB - Artificial Intelligence

Robot with Heart and Mind at the Swiss Paraplegic Center Nottwil

The Swiss Paraplegic Center (SPC) is focusing on innovative solutions to improve patient care and visitor experience. An important step in this direction is the acquisition of an interactive robot that guides, informs and entertains patients and visitors. The robot can be a great help in navigating…

Watson’s Journey: From Quiz Show Champ to AI Leader in Medicine.

ChatGPT and similar tools are now ubiquitous, making AI a very hot IT topic. Yet, AI’s success story stretches back decades, with IBM Watson as a key pioneer. Today, Watson’s potential reaches across numerous industries, guided by strict ethical principles to ensure responsible use.

Artificial Intelligence: Economic Revolution or Energy Sink?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has established itself as an indispensable technology, not least in energy and building management, where it helps to improve sustainability and efficiency. However, the proliferation of AI also has a downside: It's driving up energy consumption in data centers.…

Grüezi! UMB Voicebot Supports Kreuzlingen Residents' Office through AI – and Understands Swiss German Too.

The town of Kreuzlingen in the Swiss Canton of Thurgau can now serve its 23,000 residents even better. As part of its smart city strategy, the residents' office is now using AI (artificial intelligence) to answer telephone calls. This digital assistant - the voicebot has a female voice - answers…

How Quantum Computing is Already Threatening Our Data Security - and What We Can Do About It.

While quantum computers are not yet a common fixture in everyday business operations, the imminent implications for data security demand attention now. Existing encryption methods are at risk of being compromised. Cybercriminals are exploiting this vulnerability through “store-now, decrypt-later…

Mayflower, Oceanus and Peregrine: AI on the Seven Seas.

The first AI-guided voyage across the North Atlantic from Plymouth, England, to Halifax, Canada, was just a start. Now the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is undergoing a process of optimization in Massachusetts before being used for other scientific projects. In addition, the AI-controlled fleet is…

Bye-Bye Microsoft Office, Hello Microsoft 365 Apps – Soon With AI Copilot.

Microsoft has made two important announcements, indicating that the time of the classic Microsoft Office suite is coming to an end. One is an important end-of-support announcement, and the other is about new AI features that are meant to make our daily work easier in the future.

From Language to Images: AI Makes Itself Indispensable

ChatGPT has proven itself in recent weeks to be an extremely capable, powerful, and practical language tool, already used by millions of users in a wide range of disciplines. But the GPT-3 language model, developed by the American research company OpenAI, can do much more. It is also the basis of…

ChatGPT: When AI Suddenly Becomes Truly Intelligent and Suitable for the Masses.

Intelligent killer robots are the AI creations of the future that make for nightmares. But the word is stronger than the sword - even when it comes to artificial intelligence. A chatbot from a Californian lab with a lot of money behind it (Sam Altman[i], Microsoft and Elon Musk are three of the…

Sun, Sea, and Artificial Intelligence: The Mayflower is on the Move (Again)

The new Mayflower, also known as MAS400, is to sail from Great Britain to America without a captain or crew - 5200 kilometers across the temperamental North Atlantic, from England to the east coast of the USA. With this project, IBM, together with the marine research organization ProMare and other…

Artificial Intelligence - Inconspicuous yet Omnipresent Little Helpers.

We are already assisted by artificial intelligence in many areas of our daily lives - often without even realizing it. Over the next few years, AI will become an even more ubiquitous but still inconspicuous phenomenon.

AI and the Cloud Call for a New Data Storage Approach.

The hybrid cloud and the processing of location-independent data as well as the huge amounts of data generated by AI are forcing storage technology vendors to adopt new approaches and different ways of thinking. Consistent access to and availability of data streams in a hybrid cloud infrastructure…