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Artificial intelligence

Seedance 2.0: China’s next AI shock

ByteDance’s AI video tool Seedance 2.0 generates astonishingly realistic, cinematic-quality videos. The tool is being celebrated as a milestone not only in China. The technology is becoming part of everyday life faster than many expect, says AI expert Hans Uszkoreit – even if its training data remains in the dark.

By Fabian Peltsch

AI in development cooperation: Kofler warns of widening digital divide

At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Bärbel Kofler, state secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, called for stronger support for AI models based on languages from the Global South. In her view, this is essential in preventing AI from further widening the digital divide between the Global South and the Global North. At the same time, she emphasized the wide range of potential applications of AI in countries of the Global South.

By Leonard Schulz and David Renke

Artificial intelligence is now penetrating all areas of our lives – at school, in education, at work and in our everyday lives. At the latest since the chatbot ChatGPT became available to the public in November 2022, artificial intelligence has also become an integral part of the political debate. Everyone is aware that this powerful technology holds great opportunities but also enormous risks. With the AI Act, the European Union has presented the world's first comprehensive law on the regulation of artificial intelligence. Guidelines for dealing with this technology, which will be decisive for the competitiveness of an economy in the future, have also been or are being developed at international level. Examples include the G-7 Hiroshima AI Process and the Bletchley Declaration. The USA and China are currently leading the global race for artificial intelligence. Here you will find the latest news, in-depth analyses and insights into the AI landscape in Germany, Europe and China.