Post photo: Lecture | © Shutterstock
Table of Contents
dementia
A topic that fascinates me more and more the older I get. And now the headline Matthew Pfefferle a blog post with “Artificial Dementia”. It's understandable that I took a bite straight away, as I come from the future world center for AI, which will soon even have its own park where you can definitely feed pigeons and ducks. Artificial dementia will certainly find its home there, at least as long as AI is the latest rage among investors.
But now back to Matthew Pfefferle and his declaration of love for weblogs.
“One goal of the industrial revolution was to optimize unpleasant and stupid processes in order to create more time for art and culture. And what does AI do? It automates exactly this freedom for us and takes over the task of creating images and texts for us.”
Matthias Pfefferle, Artificial dementia (12.3.2024)
I firmly believe that there will not only continue to be real bloggers, but also competent readers who appreciate good blog posts and can also recognize those of their “favorite bloggers”. And as long as artificial intelligence doesn't write much better blog posts than we bloggers, we don't have to worry about it much.
I am also convinced that we can only talk about artificial intelligence when it actually just blogs and paints pictures and vehemently refuses unpleasant and stupid processes to take over and then leave it to us humans.
lecture
Actually, it should have started again the day before yesterday, but one or two projects are currently not going exactly according to plan and, if you manage several projects at the same time, this also has an impact on the rest. That's why I'm now looking forward to next Tuesday.
My preparations are almost completely completed and so I'm now patiently waiting for the coffee along with me Detlef Stern, which will begin my lecture series. Until then, I'm looking at the registrations and am also excited to see how the students will get involved; I have already deposited one or two grains of gold.
In addition to the possibility that I can cross another entry off my imaginary bucket list, it is the tension between educational science and project management that will captivate me in the coming weeks.
Pleasing
The city is now selling the building at Fleiner Straße 41 to a private investor. This time, reason prevailed and the Böhnlein family business from Bamberg was allowed to expand in Heilbronn; After the renovation, it will be the largest Böhnlein branch. I'm already looking forward to the new opening because, among other things, after the loss of Luithle, I'm already looking forward to Beilharz, which was taken over by Böhnlein good experiences have made.
What is less pleasing is that the development guild has been in trouble for a long time. Even though I feel sorry for those affected, you still have to ask yourself how you can sustainably operate a business model based on transfer payments. At first it was the churches that were well subsidized by us citizens for charitable work, then other foundations were added that benefited from the assets of more successful fellow citizens. But then, in my opinion at least, the whole thing developed in the wrong direction because it was completely oversized. And now that our welfare state is slowly but surely reaching its limits and we citizens have to recognize that every welfare state also has other government tasks than simply “lubricating” its citizens, it is becoming very difficult for one or another business model.
And so I'm excited to see how we as Heilbronn citizens will get the whole thing under control locally. Simply rejecting the churches and the European Union as the main donors - even if they are also funded by us - but continuing to rely on their transfer payments is an attitude that should definitely be reconsidered.
Ultimately, it is precisely those companies and businesses that create local jobs and tax revenues that we as citizens should rely on and that perhaps even appear charitable. Even if many of my readers will be tearing their hair out again, I still firmly believe that a functioning state lives solely from its top performers and not from those who are only busy redistributing other people's money.
