The initiative DIGHUM lectures started with regular online events to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism. The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for DIGHUM lecture series.
Speaker: Johannes Oster (became.ai, TU Wien, Austria)
Moderator: Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA)
As AI development accelerates, the releases of DeepSeek-V3 and R1 raise fundamental questions about AI accessibility, geopolitical dynamics, and the future of AI development. This presentation dissects the public narrative surrounding DeepSeek’s achievements, published research, industry speculation, and media amplification. We’ll analyse the key concepts behind today’s leading reasoning models, and explore their implications.
To wrap up we will discuss how DeepSeek’s developments reshape economic and geopolitical dynamics.
About the Series
A roughly bi-weekly seminar offers presentations and panels from worldwide thought leaders. It is typically held on Tuesday afternoons at 17:00 CET.
The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for DIGHUM lecture series.
Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationship between man and machine. It acknowledges the potential of Informatics and IT. At the same time, it points to related apparent threats such as privacy violations, ethical concerns with AI, automation, and loss of jobs, and the ongoing monopolization on the Web.
For this reason, a new initiative — DIGHUM lectures — started with regular online events to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism.
We will have one or more speakers on a specific topic followed by a discussion, or panel discussions, depending on topic and speakers. The exact dates will be announced at least two weeks before.
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