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Lamarr Exhibit at MS Wissenschaft » Lamarr News A Lamarr Institute exhibit on the MS Wissenschaft demonstrates how AI and digital twin models analyze causal relationships in medical data, enabling more personalized treatment decisions and advancing...

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AI slop It’s not slop because it was created by an AI. It’s slop because it’s slop. I just read the first two pages of a sci-fi novel on my Kindle. The author proudly proclaims that the 4…

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A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era It's not just chatbots anymore

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Process thinking Sure, you made it work this time, but will it work next time? Can you teach the method to someone else? Do you have a protocol for what to do when it doesn’t work? How can someone else contri…

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25th Schnupper Uni at the University of Bonn » Lamarr News At the University of Bonn’s Schnupper Uni, Prof. Lena Funcke inspired 225 female students with insights into AI research, theoretical physics, and pathways into STEM careers.

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AI Guardrails Do Not Work (Yet) Would you cross a bridge that was 99.7% safe? The answer is not necessarily simple. It depends on how many times you need to cross it (once, or every day for...

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AALearning: Uncertainty-Aware AI for Fundamental Physics AALearning develops uncertainty-aware AI methods to improve robustness and reliability in fundamental physics research.

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AI Must Be Line Managed I used to just code. Then I managed teams. Now I find myself needing management skills again, even when I am not managing people.The first time I tried deleg...

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New cooperation strengthens international AI research at Lamarr » Lamarr News The Lamarr Institute, the University of Bonn, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) have launched a long-term research collaboration in artificial intelligence, life sciences, and data...

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Scaling laws of emergent multilingualism in vision-language models » Lamarr News New research identifies scaling laws that explain how vision-language models develop emergent multilingual image captioning abilities through generalization from translation data, even without explicit...

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Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences » Lamarr News Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus has been appointed as an international member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Her work at the interface of theoretical physics and artificial intelligence strengthens Lamarr’s...

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Physics-LLM: Advancing from Big Data to Smart Data » Lamarr News Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), Physics-LLM is an ErUM-Data research project developing AI-based tools using large language models to improve research...

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AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems A Blog post by ServiceNow-AI on Hugging Face

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Lamarr researcher Prof. Dr. Petra Wiederkehr elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) » Lamarr News Lamarr Principal Investigator Petra Wiederkehr has been elected to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

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Benchmark Studies It is impossible to disentangle technical innovation from technical debt

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True Stories from the (Data) Battlefield – Part 1: Communicating About Data A blog about data science, statistics, and data analysis with open-source software.

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ChatGPT Is Terraforming Earth Your ChatGPT subscription is subsidising the terraforming of Earth.Not metaphorically. China’s solar overbuild is crashing electricity prices toward zero. AI...

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The Slow And Dangerous Loss Of Self I have been telling people to use AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement for thinking. To let it interview them, surface ideas, enhance their output rat...

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RePAIR brings Pompeii's frescoes back to life » Lamarr News The European research project RePAIR – Reconstructing the Past combines robotics, AI, and computer vision to reconstruct ancient frescoes from Pompeii using an AI-supported method that digitally analyzes...

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Award for sustainable AI research » Lamarr News Award-winning research on sustainable large language models recognized by TU Dortmund for advancing energy-efficient and transparent AI systems.

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Data spaces and vertical AI: Europe's path to digital sovereignty » Lamarr News Vertical AI and trusted data spaces emerge as essential pillars for Europe’s digital sovereignty, highlighted by Lamarr Institute in Paris

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New access to quantum computing » Lamarr News Open-access textbook presenting an intuitive quantum computing introduction by bridging AI fundamentals, Hopfield networks, and practical Python examples

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Setting the course for European AI sovereignty » Lamarr News European AI sovereignty takes center stage as the Foundation Model Workshop contributes research perspectives to the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty

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JUPITER selects first AI projects » Lamarr News Bonn’s Lamarr Institute wins JUPITER Gauss-AI selection: Prof. Gall’s HoMe project advances generative AI, robotics, and human-motion video models.

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Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival Experts from design, film, and technology discussed the creative potential & ethical challenges of AI at Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival moderated by Lamarr.

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RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting » Lamarr News Artificial intelligence for better disaster prevention: The new AI model “RiverMamba”, developed at the Lamarr Institute and the University of Bonn under the lead of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall, significantly...

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