Überarbeitung der ÖAB-Monographie von Herba Herniariae

Das Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit war die Überarbeitung der ÖAB-Monographie von Herba Herniariae, dem Bruchkraut. Dabei wurde jeder in der Monographie angegebene Arbeitsschritt genau untersucht und gegebenenfalls verbessert bzw. durch neuere Methoden ersetzt

The AI-Stance: Crossing the Terra Incognita of Human-Machine Interactions?

Although even very advanced artificial systems do not meet the demanding conditions which are required for humans to be a proper participant in a social interaction, we argue that not all human-machine interactions (HMIs) can appropriately be reduced to mere tool-use. By criticizing the far too demanding conditions of standard construals of intentional agency we suggest a minimal approach that ascribes minimal agency to some artificial systems resulting in the proposal of taking minimal joint actions as a case of a social HMI. Analyzing such HMIs, we utilize Dennett’s stance epistemology, and argue that taking either an intentional stance or design stance can be misleading for several reasons, and instead propose to introduce a new stance that is able to capture social HMIs—the AI-stance

How far can we get in creating a digital replica of a philosopher?

Can we build machines with which we can have interesting conversations? Observing the new optimism of AI regarding deep learning and new language models, we set ourselves an ambitious goal: We want to find out how far we can get in creating a digital replica of a philosopher. This project has two aims; one more technical, investigating of how the best model can be built. The other one, more philosophical, explores the limits and risks which are accompanied by the creation of digital replicas. In cooperation with Daniel Dennett, we took his complete works to fine-tune a GPT-3. In this paper, we share our first results with some piloting models and discuss legal and ethical questions about creating and interacting with digital replicas

Comparison of quantum binary experiments

A quantum binary experiment consists of a pair of density operators on a finite dimensional Hilbert space. An experiment E is called \epsilon-deficient with respect to another experiment F if, up to \epsilon, its risk functions are not worse than the risk functions of F, with respect to all statistical decision problems. It is known in the theory of classical statistical experiments that 1. for pairs of probability distributions, one can restrict to testing problems in the definition of deficiency and 2. that 0-deficiency is a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of a stochastic mapping that maps one pair onto the other. We show that in the quantum case, the property 1. holds precisely if E consist of commuting densities. As for property 2., we show that if E is 0-deficient with respect to F, then there exists a completely positive mapping that maps E onto F, but it is not necessarily trace preserving.Comment: 13 pages; version accepted in Rep. Math. Phys, minor change

Voranalysen von Sentinel-2-Zeitreihen als Basis für fernerkundungsgestützte Biotopkartierungen in der Alpinzone = Preliminary Analysis of Sentinel-2 Time Series for EO-based Biotope Mapping in the Alpine Zone

Aktuelle Satellitendaten, wie die europäischen Sentinel-2-Daten, können genutzt werden, um eine Erfassung von Lebensraum- und Biotoptypen im Hochgebirge zielgerichtet zu unterstützen. Der Beitrag diskutiert das generelle Potenzial von hoch aufgelösten, optischen Satellitendaten für ein intensives Monitoring mit häufig wiederholbaren Messungen und überregionaler Vergleichbarkeit. Erste Ergebnisse des Projekts EO4BTAlp zeigen die Eignung von Sentinel-2-Zeitreihen im Jahresgang, um sowohl Feldbegehungen besser zu planen als auch höchst aufgelöste Satellitendaten für Detailstudien zu akquirieren