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"AI helps us to grasp more and more complex facts"
Since 2003, when Joachim Buhmann became an ETH professor, he has helped shape the explosive development of machine learning. It is not technical progress that worries him, but how society deals with it. Shortly before his retirement, he looks back on his academic career.
Building bridges between people and machines
The ongoing development of artificial intelligence is often presented as a race between humans and machines. ETH professor Menna El-?Assady takes a different approach: she wants to develop an AI that can be used interactively and that shapes its capabilities only in collaboration with humans.
Final design of ELT's METIS instrument completed
METIS is the first instrument of the Extremely Large Telescope to pass its final design review.
Global effort to gather environmental DNA
Inspired by the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, Kristy Deiner and her research team launched “LeDNA” – a project to gather global biodiversity data from nearly 500 lakes with the help of citizen scientists in more than 80 countries.
A bionanomachine for green chemistry
ETH Professor Volodymyr Korkhov has contributed to the structural elucidation of an enzyme.