{"id":380,"date":"2017-11-29T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:58:11","slug":"nzz-z-magazine-contribution-by-abraham-bernstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/2017\/11\/29\/nzz-z-magazine-contribution-by-abraham-bernstein\/","title":{"rendered":"NZZ Z-Magazine contribution by Abraham Bernstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Bernstein was approached by NZZ to give his opinion on the following statement: &#8216;Algorithmen treffen bessere Entscheidungen&#8217;. (Algorithms make better decisions)<\/p>\n<p>As both Professor in Informatics and Director of the Digital Society Initiative, he felt the following way:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Menschen entscheiden anders als Algorithmen, ihre St\u00e4rken und Schw\u00e4chen unterscheiden sich deshalb. Computer sind schnell und urteilen bei denselben Voraussetzungen immer gleich. Wir Menschen haben verschiedene Ansichten und kommen oft zu unterschiedlichen Schl\u00fcssen. Wir lassen uns durch unseren Gem\u00fctszustand beeinflussen und m\u00fcssen motiviert werden. Bei raschen, wohldefinierten Entscheidungen, die ohne Beeinflussung zu f\u00e4llen sind, haben Computer oft die Oberhand. Wenn es aber um komplexe, vage definierte Fragen geht, dann kommen Menschen \u2013 vor allem in Gruppen \u2013 meistens zu besseren, originelleren L\u00f6sungen. Das Ziel ist deshalb, die St\u00e4rken von menschlicher und k\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz zu kombinieren, um die Gesellschaft weiterzubringen&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those that do not speak German, Abraham highlights the differences between how humans and computers function, and states that the goal should be to use the strengths of both humans and computers to advance society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Bernstein was approached by NZZ to give his opinion on the following statement: &#8216;Algorithmen treffen bessere Entscheidungen&#8217;. (Algorithms make better decisions) As both Professor in Informatics and Director of the Digital Society Initiative, he felt the following way: &#8220;Menschen entscheiden anders als Algorithmen, ihre St\u00e4rken und Schw\u00e4chen unterscheiden sich deshalb. Computer sind schnell [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}