The question of trust
Technology is a wonderful thing. As a tool, it helps us with many things. However, skepticism is a constant companion of new technologies.
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Technology is a wonderful thing. As a tool, it helps us with many things. However, skepticism is a constant companion of new technologies.

Siemens is investing one billion euros in Germany. A new campus for development and high-tech production will be built in Erlangen for 500 million euros. It will also become the "nucleus for technology activities for the industrial metaverse".

"Today, Apple will reinvent the phone." Steve Jobs' announcement at the launch of the first iPhone proved to be true, partly because there was suddenly an app for everything. However, the App Store's successful model is under pressure, particularly in Europe.
Chatbots have been on everyone's lips since ChatGPT at the latest. Beckhoff also uses the technology in its TwinCAT XAE engineering environment.
A digital twin is not only a virtual instance of a physical object, but also a universally usable IT application for adapting the requirements of a wireless modem retrofit application, as in the practical example described.

followed up! - with Dr. Thomas Kuhn
As part of the research project "BaSys - Basis System Industrie 4.0", Fraunhofer IESE and its partners want to enable companies to get started with Industrie 4.0 solutions. Dr. Thomas Kuhn, Division Manager Embedded Systems at Fraunhofer IESE, explains the status quo.

Two young stars of the AI scene are providing the Hasso Plattner Institute's most popular free online course to date. Since 14 June, the two 25-year-olds have been familiarizing laypeople with ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney and the like in an understandable way.

A number of leading experts on artificial intelligence see the technology as a potential threat to humanity and have called for the risks to be taken seriously.

Two years ago, the vision of a digital world was still closely associated with the term Metaverse. Facebook even changed the company name to Meta. However, many people now believe that artificial intelligence is more likely to prevail as the technology of the future.

In the past second quarter of fiscal year 2023, Siemens almost tripled its profit compared to the same period of the previous year.