Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid
Member of bidt's Board of Directors and the Executive Commitee | Member of the Bavarian AI Council | Head of Cognitive Systems Group, University of Bamberg
Ute Schmid is a member of bidt’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She is a Professor of Cognitive Systems at the University of Bamberg. She has been teaching and researching artificial intelligence for many years, focusing on human-like machine learning and methods for interactive and explanatory learning. She is the initiator and head of FELI – Research group for elementary and primary computer science. She has been committed to teaching basic informatics concepts in primary schools for over ten years. In 2020, she was awarded the Rainer-Markgraf-Preis for her commitment to knowledge transfer in computer science, especially AI, for children, teachers, and the general public. Ute Schmid is a member of the Bavarian AI Council.
Thinking like a …
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FAZ guest article about the language AI ChatGPT
In a guest article in the FAZ, Alexander Pretschner, Eric Hilgendorf, Ute Schmid and Hannah Schmid-Petri explore the question of what follows from the language AI ChatGPT.
Machine learning
Machine learning means a computer programme learns from experience related to a certain class of tasks, and the execution related to those tasks improves with increasing experience.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence describes the branch of computer science dealing with the development of computer algorithms for problems that we humans are still better at solving.
Digital Literacy for All!
In a data-driven world, data literacy, the understanding of the algorithmic processing of data, becomes a fundamental competence for digital literacy. This knowledge and the informed handling of new – for example AI-based…
The AI Scout
Ute Schmid’s research area lies at the interface of AI development and its application. The bidt director is committed to a partnership between people and technology.
Digital Learning at Primary School
Digital media can expand the didactic toolkit and hence teaching basic computer science concepts is a prerequisite for digital sovereignty, as Ute Schmid writes in her blog post.
“It’s always impressive to realise what humans can do – and machine learning cannot (yet) do.”
Prof. Ute Schmid joined the bidt directorate in February 2020. In the interview, she talks about her research and involvement at the institute.