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its relationship with coal. once and for all purposes. d to be business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. it's the biggest event in the tech calendar. consumer electronics show or c s is up and running in las vegas. it follows a tough few years with the virtual event back in 2021 and a sparsely attended in person c. s. last year. massive leaps in virtual reality and artificial intelligence on display this time round as needed. we'll use stefan simons has been finding out ah, one of the oldest and biggest exhibitions on las vegas event calendar is finally back. as a post cobit no masks in personally bet. $3000.00 plus exhibitors from $173.00 countries, territories and regions. 1000 of them here for the 1st time ever. they occupy

2200000 square feet of space this year. in case you're wondering, that's the equivalent of about 28 world cup soccer pitches. that's just about enough space as the masses are back to over 100000 attendees from over 100 countries worldwide, i expected to rome. the c. s halt over a 4 day period. i to wowza it's always new innovations, new technology to take out. always excited to see that. that's pretty nice that we did a virtual shopping thing. it was probably a future shopping when i was that was but it was okay. i liked it. besides new and improved shopping in virtual reality malls, b r a r x r virtual augmented an extended reality, the so called met averse is still once again, one of the main topics of interest and intrigue. here this year i'm going to enter the meta verse. now we're going to transport you from c s. right to manchester city

via the mad of earth ah leading the med averse returning to real world even here, new, improved and innovative virtual extended and augmented reality algorithms and software applications are every take the car industry, all electric, of course, and on top of that software emerges with hardware and less worst. honda and sony, mercedes mitsubishi, lucy, to recharge guardian, missouri. your future tal mostly driving the v of choice is a super computer. we are a r x our platform, an x box for play station on we. increasingly, i'm the family, all of that ai, artificial intelligence, it's seeping into all aspects of take that into nearly all aspects of our lives.

for now we have just a little but in the future. well, that's what the c s is all about. the future indeed. so let's discuss a little further how development in a i are changing the world. we're joined by alisha burke out from df k. i the german research center for artificial intelligence. thanks a lot for joining us on date of the business. are you sure? how has a i impacted industry so far and how to expect it to continue to do so in the future? i mean, if we're talking about devices, one can probably say that a i has been more used at the periphery of things to put it this way. if we're thinking about a smart assistant and maybe the component that turns my spoken voice into written text is a i based and maybe the output module bill that outputs written, voice again is i based, but the dialogue itself and maybe the steering my household electronics part of the this a smart device is that normal software, right?

and, and also in the v r that has been mentioned in the film. i guess the buildings are still drawn by humans that maybe the i systems are responsible for rendering for coloring, mem, adding shadows and these kinds of things. and i think we will see a turn that a i will more and more also create content. yeah, we've seen this now in the web too. it's like said g, b, t, or dolly drawing pictures, composing music, writing text. and i think these things they will turn in the next few years, also into the devices. i'm glad you mentioned jeff. jeff g p t, because i didn't have a lot. my 1st question that i actually didn't write that one myself. i got charged a fee to recommend some questions to ask you, and that was one of them. it was all right, wasn't it? but has more the rise of things like chat g t really show people the more broad public just how capable a i already is. yeah,

i think it's really nice. i call it democratization light because not many people can play with it and can make experience. and also maybe pro hopefully learned about the, the boundaries or the that, that the, the limitations of this technology. i think this is really, really good as an educational measure. but at the same time, it's a little bit frustrating for me as a developer that we haven't seen many a business case a so far, right. i mean, the still live in the future because this technology has been invented 2 to 3 years ago, or it has been become what is now. so we will, we will see the future what, what, what can, what products will come out of it. and again, take another question from the chapter here and just ask you the ethical considerations that there are around a i, are they being taken into account sufficiently? a decent germany, you know, i mean there is a big culture about discussing the problems and the weaknesses of technology. and some of the discussion is not so particularly about a i itself,

but about site the use of data. the fact that we have cameras and microphones in children's rooms and our fitness tracking information is stored on some kinds of servers. i mean, all these data protection questions that are serious questions, of course, that need to be discussed. but on the other hand, if we're talking about a proper, then there are questions like how do you do i design my check? what, what kind of feature does it have? does it also react to minority languages? maybe people with other body measures than the expected ones, and they're still used to fitness tracking apps. i mean these questions are then being discussed. so many questions to discuss on i thank you all ship cars from t k. i think you i autumn ability sector has been making use of artificial intelligence for some years now. recently, c, s has become the place for car makers to show off their latest concepts and prototypes. well, this is proving their different. oh, is how lou re imagined to mark this beam double you can talk and

change its color like a chameleon. the munich based car maker has brought quite a show to las vegas, the message, a new vision of intelligent, highly digitalized cars. it is our vision of pushing the boundaries between physical and digital perception. it's a concept car, but that technology is meant to go into mass production. b, m, w line up of stars is impressive. arnold schwartzenegger kit and herbie childhood heroes to those who are even able to afford this kind of car. volkswagen is also going big in vegas. why i'll be it in a more muted style. the c e o himself starts in a marketing campaign, talking up the innovative id 7, an electric lemme scene. that's the latest addition to the car makers. the portfolio making e cars means making big cars. in 2021. every 2nd

e car sold was an s u v. small models aren't profitable of the his over the let's because the cost for the battery and the entire technology is still very high. of course we're trying to get down with that price and our model size. we're working very hard on developing smaller cars. german carmakers are not the only ones at the c s eager to show their vision of a digital future. far from it, competition is strong. tesla still has the highest sales numbers and chinese car make up. e d y has triple sales. last year alone edition is moderate attorneys car make us very strong. they also have some advantages, especially when it comes to the electric power system. they have easy access to all necessary resources. like for lithium ion batteries, german companies have to buy these resources from china. so the chinese industry has upgraded manage here it was the angles afford her new technologies. one thing

making it all accessible is another. mercedes introduces new cars, but also a $500000000.00 investment in fast charging infrastructure. it's not just the quarter thinking about but the whole package, including resources and batteries, is annoy felder and leave on. these are new fields for us. we are working our way through them and want to be leaders here too. we depend on having great software, but also battery technology, an entire ecosystem that makes life easier for our customers. that includes easy charging. the growth good of louden mercedes is trying to catch up to teslas success just like volkswagen and b, m. w are working hard to keep up with the competition. now it seen as a major way to clean up germany's energy supply. hydrogen supplied by european neighbors is expected to replace the high falutin co that the country continues to burn as a key reason why german economy, mr. robert havoc is in no way. the ultimate goal is to switch from dirty

sources like these to more environmentally friendly hydrogen powered plants. that's the vision of this close cooperation between germany and norway, while germany and much of europe managed to see if got themselves and have enough energy to heat this winter. theo do emissions increased, and the long promised green energy transition was put on the back burner. now the german government is looking ahead specifically to 2030 when the pipeline carrying hydrogen from oslo to berlin will be ready to function as your cost like of ongoing . we want to build power plants to the hydrogen ready by 2030. they should be up and running, then they will need hydrogen. this hydrogen should be produced, step by step by renewable energies. but in the face until the renewable energy can produce hydrogen in this quantity. we can use d, carbonized hydrogen,

d carbonized hydrogen can. and from my point of view, should be provided by norway. so to us, nor we can provide to sto trem. many companies are more than ready to be part of this transition. like gal heim fibers was known for their production of discourse fibers that are found in damp bonds, medical products and apparel, or the affordability claim. before the energy crisis, energy costs accounted for about 20 percent of our variable costs here at the site . in the meantime, they have risen to over 60 to 70 percent and a far overtaken chemical pulp our main raw material as a cost factor austin factor avoid. we want to be one of the 1st large companies in bavaria to switch to hydrogen. on. the energy crisis has been a stark wanting for europe. that both energy security and smart sources are critical for good business and

a strong economy. to soften reminder the top business story that we're following for you this our consumer electronic show is underway in las vegas is the biggest tech event of the year virtual reality and artificial intelligence to playing a major part of the world for past or future dominated by smart technology and the mattress. that's it for me and a business team here, and then head over to d, w dot com slash business for mo, from us of us on the t to we news channels on facebook to next time, take half into the conflict zone. the conflict in ukraine is only one that was vladimir putin is fighting hooton's. chief target in russia has been like say the my guess this week or next island london is one of the valleys associate. a shortcut. the group is naming and shaming thousands of officials supporting the whole ukraine. but how far

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