Conference debates how AI can shed its 'black box' image Business Economy and finance news from a German perspective DW 16.03.2018

"I'm a nerd!" Jana Eggers tells us in a tone that suggests she is very much at ease with the description. Realistically, this airy room in the Berlin offices of the state of Baden-Württemberg, where a major conference on artificial intelligence (AI) took place on Wednesday and Thursday, is probably full of self-confessed nerds unlikely to be too upset by the moniker. Considering the tasks many of them have taken on in their professional lives -- the understanding and developing of artificial intelligence systems -- that brain power is needed. In effect, they are trying to build tech that mirrors the functioning of that most remarkable of natural organs, the human brain. Read more: Teachers for AI -- can robots create more jobs than they retire?