from norway and its relationship with coal. once and for all. this is due to be a 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's always a tough few years with a 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 was 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 kobe no masks in person, you bet. $3000.00 plus exhibitors from $173.00 countries, territories and regions. 1000 of them here for the 1st time ever. they occupied

2200000 square feet of space this year. in case you're wondering, that's the equivalent of about 28 world cup, soccer pictures. that's just about enough space as the masses are back to over 100000 attendees from over 100 countries worldwide are expected to rome. the c. s halt over a 4 day period. i'm still at the wow. it's always new innovations. new technology, the take out, always excited to see that was pretty nice. we did a very 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 matter, with leaving the med averse returning to real world even here, new improve and innovative virtual extended and augmented reality algorithms and software applications are ever take the car industry. all the electric, of course, and on top of that software emerges with hardware and vice versa. honda and sony, mercedes mitsubishi, lucy, actually ours 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 and aids. let's discuss a little further how developments in a i are changing the world we're joined by alisha burkhart 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 i has been more used at the periphery of things. you have 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 mod bill that outputs written voice again is i based, but the dialogue itself and maybe the steering my household electronics part of the, this is smart as device is then 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 and 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 to, it's like said she, p 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 jack. chuck g p t, because i didn't how would you like my 1st question that but 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 charge to really show people the more broad public just how capable a i already is. yeah. 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, 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 business cases so far, right. i mean, the still lives 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, what products will come out of it. and again, take another question from the chat out here and just ask you the ethical considerations that are around a i, are they being taken into account sufficiently, a decent germany, you know, i mean, there was 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 they are questions like how 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 d s. k, i think, you know, the automobile sector has been making use of artificial intelligence for some years now. recently, c, s has become the place for com, i guess, to show off the latest concepts, prototypes. well, this is proving no different. i re imagine

this b, w 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 hits the concept car, but the technology is meant to go into mass production. b, m, w's line up of stars is impressive. arnold schwartzenegger kit and herbie childhood heroes to those who were even able to afford this kind of car. volkswagen is also going big and vegas why i'll be 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. e 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 his over the. that's because the cost for the battery and the entire technology is still very high of, 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 this year'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. this is mildred attorneys car make us a 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 of german companies have to buy these resources from china. so the chinese industry has a great advantage here it is. the uncles afford her new technology is one thing,

making it all accessible as another. mercedes introduces new cars, but also $500000000.00 investment in fast charging infrastructure. it's not just the car they're thinking about, but the whole package, including resources and batteries, is an oil 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 good 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 polluting 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 closed 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. c o 2 emissions increased and the long promised green energy transition was put on the backburner. 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 cross jacob bone. when we want to build power plants, 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 off nor we can provide to sto trem. many companies are more than ready to be part of this transition like gal heim fibers who is known for their production of discourse fibers that are found in tampons, medical products and apparel, or the affordability for 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 hosting factor. we want to be one of the 1st large companies in bavaria to switch to hydrogen. first of all, 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 suffer reminder the top business story that we're following for you this our consumer electronics show is underway in las vegas is the biggest tech event of the year virtual reality and artificial intelligence to playing a major part as the well prepared for future dominated by smart technology and the metaphors. that's all for me in the business team here, but then head over to the d. w dot com slash business for more from us. we're also on the d to we news b to channel and on facebook till next time. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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