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LOCATION:WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung,Reichpietschufer 50,10785 Berlin
SUMMARY:BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2024
DESCRIPTION:10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. CEST (Berlin) // Heike Schweitzer, one of the panelists invited to speak at the conference, died suddenly a few days before the conference on June 11. The academic world has lost a brilliant legal scholar and intellectual leader in competition law. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.    Imagine there is a conference in Berlin on June 14, 2004 and you have been invited. The invitation arrives in the mail. When it’s time to leave for the conference, you rely on a large paper map and your sense of orientation to find your way there. Twenty years later, this scenario is quite different. While in some ways it is less complicated, it nevertheless has its own pitfalls thanks to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our daily lives. Today, an invitation would arrive by email; perhaps the AI algorithm would sort it into the spam folder. A navigation app would guide you to the venue and the journey could be pleasantly spent with digital activities suggested to you based on your preferences and online behavior.   It was with this little comparison that Maja Adena, Vice Director of the “Economics of Change” research unit at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, opened this year's BCCP Conference and Policy Forum on AI: Prospects, Challenges, and Regulation on June 14, 2024, illustrating not only how much we already rely on AI to guide us through life, but also how quickly it has become one of our most trusted companions.  In 2017, transformers, a new way of making connections in artificial neural networks, started to allow enabled AI to keep track of patterns in their input and grasp context in a more sophisticated way. In a relatively rapid development, anyone reading this text on a digital device now also has access to generative language models such as GPT-4 (GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer). While AI tools are propagating rapidly in many applications, much uncertainty regarding their capabilities, limitations, and policy implications for competition and regulation persists, which requires further technological innovations, experimentation, and careful policy design. As Tomaso Duso, Head of the Firms and Markets Department at DIW Berlin, pointed out in his introduction: An interdisciplinary discussion that combines lessons from economics, social sciences, law, computer science, and ethics is what we need right now to manage this almost ubiquitous and pioneering technology.  With three sessions and a number of great experts, the 2024 BCCP conference contributed to a better understanding of AI.
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ORGANIZER;CN=Christiane Zschech:mailto:events@diw.de
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