DLD AI Summit 2023
2023-09-07
Munich, Germany
as the organisers put it
This event explored how AI is reshaping every industry: from mobility to health, from agriculture to media, education, science, and politics…
who it's for
corporate executives and strategy leads, ai product managers, startup founders and founders in residence, policy makers and regulators, machine learning engineers, media and advertising professionals, research scientists and academics
topics
Transformer model and GPU scaling; ChatGPT and consumer generative AI; foundation models for code generation; EU AI Act and compliance; regulatory sandboxes for testing; AI for climate and energy systems; AlphaFold and drug discovery; deep learning for imaging technologies; precision agriculture with satellite data; generative AI in media and advertising; AI in education and tutoring (GenAI EdTech); grounding, safety filters and explainability
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| One Year of Generative AI: What Has Happened and What's Next? | Ludwig Ensthaler | 15m |
Claims that generative AI reached mass use are concrete: more than 1 billion end users within a year, driven by the Transformer model (2017) plus GPU compute… | ||
| Welcome | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 12m |
Day opens with a quick agenda: sessions on AI for climate, EU regulation, business transformation, research roadmaps and VC bets, plus an AI inspiration stage… | ||
| The Bavarian AI Ecosystem | Judith Gerlach | 11m |
Bavaria claims 6 of Germany’s 30 unicorns and the only German decacorn in Munich, backs a 5.5 billion euro high‑tech R&D agenda, and rolls out Transfer Plus to… | ||
| Tackling the Climate Crisis | Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 15m |
Argues for a clear claim: current GDP‑first economies must shift to well‑being economies using five turnarounds (fight inequality, fight poverty, empower… | ||
| The European AI Act: Challenges and Opportunities | Eva Maydell | 26m |
The EU AI Act proposal narrows scope to high‑risk use cases (think loan or university admissions decisions, not factory maintenance), sets an exemption for… | ||
| Synergizing AI Innovation | Ewa Duerr, Eva Maydell, Peter Robejsek, Larissa Holzki | 25m |
Panelists present concrete claims and products: Google Cloud says its Kodi code generation foundational model is trained and used internally and image and… | ||
| How AI Is Changing the Way We Work & Learn | A.Assis, T.Saueressig, H. Schönenberger | 25m |
Companies report concrete moves: IBM launches Watson X in May and runs an internal Watson X challenge that onboards 180,000 people and yields ~20,000 prototype… | ||
| Cultivating Change: Transforming Media in the AI Era | M.Weiss, S. Hieronimus | 18m |
Argues that AI drives the marginal cost of content toward zero and that value shifts from creation to curation and trusted brands. Describes an experiment… | ||
| Will AI Help Solve the Biggest Challenges Facing Humanity? | Dex Hunter-Torricke, Amit Katwala | 17m |
Claims that AI already accelerates drug discovery with AlphaFold: 200 million predicted protein structures, and that a new tool SynthID in beta with Google… | ||
| How to Accelerate Impact with AI | Markus Löffler, David Kirkpatrick, Bernhard Kowatsch, Manon Littek, Odin Mühlenbein | 25m |
Panel lays out concrete AI wins and limits: satellite imagery plus SMS reaches 700,000 paying customers with precision-agriculture tips usable for illiterate… | ||
| AI in Use: Industry Perspectives | K.Speck, A. Gruca, A. Kopp, J.Schenker | 26m |
Companies report concrete deployments: a robo-advisor builds a conversational engine on GPT-3 / 3.5 running on Node.js to guide users, scaled across… | ||
| Decoding the Future of AI-driven Media Products and Advertising | Dan Oros, Stefan Atanassov | 13m |
Company shows a demo that generates ads from a URL by scraping logo and images, then producing animated assets and AI copy in seconds, localizing into multiple… | ||
| GenAI Superpowers EdTech | Euro Beinat | 14m |
Claim: generative models become personalized tutors when retrained and wrapped with control layers. Prosus retrains base LLMs on proprietary learning paths… | ||
| AI & Music: New Opportunities for Creators | Niclas Molinder | 14m |
Session Studio captures who did what in the studio to fix missing credits, and a UN-backed CLIP education platform launches October 31 to teach creators… | ||
| Patterns & Perplexity: What Can We Expect from the Parrot on Our Shoulder? | Jonas Andrulis | 09m |
Claims current large models are pattern memorisers — a stochastic parrot — not agents with real understanding. Shows a GPT-4 experiment: a classic rope-burning… | ||
| Generative AI: Business or Feature? | Jonas Andrulis, Adam Bittlingmayer, Christian Teichmann, Alexander Kudlich | 24m |
ModelFront offers an API that predicts if Google Translate is wrong and sits inside translation management systems to mark roughly 90% of segments as safe so… | ||
| Chairman's Fireside Chat | Yossi Vardi, Adrian Monck | 19m |
Managed a chaotic Davos media pack of 250 journalists, juggling on- and off-camera gaffes, a police chief’s suicide, and an impromptu press stunt by a pariah… | ||
| The Future of AI, from an Open Source Perspective | Mark Surman, Andrian Kreye | 17m |
Argues that open source boosts agency and accountability by making models auditable, cites a crowdsourced study using 50,000 browser histories to… | ||
| Generative AI: What's Next? | Björn Ommer, Florian Leibert | 27m |
Describes how Stable Diffusion turns text prompts into images and argues generative AI becomes a practical design tool, not just research: models trained on… | ||
| Seeing the World With AI: How Deep Learning Enables a New Era of Imaging Technologie | Reinhard Heckel | 10m |
Neural networks now map raw sensor measurements to images—for example accelerated MRI takes sparse k-space lines and outputs super‑sharp, clinically accurate… | ||
| The European AI Ecosystem | Andreas Liebl, Nicolas Miailhe, Pegah Maham, Alexander Ilic, Daniel Gillblad | 30m |
A panel of European AI experts lays out concrete wins and gaps: Europe has 110 professors / 1,400 PhD students at ETH AI center and strong industry sectors… | ||
| The Big Picture Outlook | Moritz Schularick, Andrew Keen, Benedikt Franke | 25m |
Panel argues AI is likely a Gutenberg-scale economic shock and an Oppenheimer-scale strategic risk, urging concrete steps: massively fund civilian AI research… | ||
| Highlights | Eva Maydell, Jonas Andrulis, Björn Ommer, Niclas Molinder | 02m |
Panel claims AI is an industrial revolution that will radically change every industry and reshape knowledge work, arguing Europe must build competitive… | ||
| nothing matches | ||