What Artifical Intelligence can teach us about being human

The single-most fear human beings have of Artificial Intelligence is that one day, robots will outsmart us, turn against us, and destroy our world. The film industry has contributed immensely to cementing this fear and continues to exploit it with movies where the antagonist is an AI - whether a physical robot or a virtual …

The truth about gender-neutral bots

The debate about gender and bots is one that doesn’t look like it will die down anytime soon. The hard reality is that bots are here to stay, and the sooner we acknowledge the pervasiveness they will have in normal people’s daily lives, the faster we realize that the conversations we are having about gender …

“Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Marcus. Do bots really need a gender?”

Stereotypes – be it gender or race – simplify complex human beings into limited key defining traits, effectively determining and streamlining how we interact with one other. They are in fact such a persistent feature in society that it is not unsurprising to find these stereotypes – gender, in particular – still perpetuated in the …

07.12.2016 : BOTSCAMP

"Do bots need a gender? And why does this matter?" Join our digital session and be part of the conversation at the first ever online camp conference about bots.

9.9.2016 THE CODE GIRLS – LIVE

Wir freuen uns darauf, die Gründerinnen der Code Girls Leipzig Julia Hoffmann & Natalie Sontopski am 9. September begrüssen zu dürfen. Sie werden aus ihrem Erfolgsbuch “We Love Code! Das kleine 101 des Programmierens” präsentieren (Fun Facts & viele tolle GIFs) und danach mit euch diskutieren, wie auch Mädchen und Frauen die Programmierwelt rocken können …

Can women and girls rock digital tech? We believe they can

  On September 9th 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the company’s latest breakthrough product, “Apple Health”. It was proudly paraded promising the most comprehensive digital tracking of an individual’s health and wellbeing. From monitoring sodium intake to recording sleep cycles, it was tipped as a world’s first in its absolute breadth of tracked health …