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    Digitalization

    The Growing Importance of Expertise

    Workers need to have digital skills to succeed on the job market. But cognitive skills – like critical thinking and the ability to plan and organize – are even more important.
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    Künstliche Intelligenz

    UZH Students Embracing AI Tools

    The use of AI tools as study aids has become widespread at university. The DSI conducted a survey among students to find out how they use AI tools, where they see benefits and what concerns they may have.
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    Artificial Intelligence

    Tech-Savvy Farming

    Intelligent sensors can help farmers cultivate their fields without the need for huge amounts of data and complex calculations. UZH neuroinformatics specialist Chiara De Luca is developing neural networks that can monitor the status of agricultural land and systematically regulate the use of water, fertilizer and pesticides.
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    Digitalization

    Less Inequality with AI

    Over the years, digitalization has led to the axing of many lower-skilled jobs, thereby polarizing the employment market. But AI could enhance some of the simpler jobs and reduce inequality.
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    UZH Magazin

    Brains and Bots

    AI avatars, co-creation, job crafting, emotionally intelligent companies – the new UZH Magazin explores how digital technologies are changing our work and what this means for us.
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    Artificial intelligence

    “Teaching is Set to Become More Interactive and Intensive”

    In the age of artificial intelligence, the emphasis in teaching is likely to shift from knowledge transfer towards interaction and reflection. Universities should also figure out which competencies and abilities cannot be replaced by AI.
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    New Department

    University Steps up Data Science

    UZH is responding to the rise of data science by establishing the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning. DM3L for short, it combines UZH’s strong basic research in mathematics with practical applications and will offer a new study program from fall 2025. Here are four examples.
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    World Economic Forum

    When the Private Becomes Public

    Next week, the elite of science and politics will meet at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to talk about current global challenges. Digitalization and data protection are high on the agenda. UZH law scholar Adrian Künzler is a consultant and member of the WEF Global Future Council on the Future of Metaverse.
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    Innovative Teaching – Part 1: Individualized Teaching

    Ready for E-Learning

    In digital self-study areas, students can learn at their own pace, taking into account what they already know. An online training course developed at UZH supports teaching staff in setting up their own e-learning hubs.
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    Law

    “AI is no wonder tool”

    Artificial intelligence can make our lives easier in many ways. But the technology also harbors many dangers. Legal scholar Florent Thouvenin is working with academic partners from across the globe to develop ideas about how AI could be optimally regulated.
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    The LOOP Zurich – Annual Event

    Data for the Medicine of the Future

    Medical research requires enormous amounts of data to achieve the breakthroughs that make a difference. The more the better – high computing capacities and large amounts of data can aid the development of new diagnoses and treatment methods. The LOOP Zurich is a pioneer in this area, as the center’s annual event showcased.
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    Surgical Robots

    Robots with a Deft Touch

    In future, multisensory surgical robots with sensors featuring visual, auditory and haptic functionality are expected to take on various individual steps during operations – quite autonomously – and support the surgeons providing treatment. Researchers from the University of Zurich are working on this, alongside clinicians, as part of the FAROS project.
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    DSI Strategy Lab "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine"

    Our Digital Doppelgangers

    Artificial intelligence is also revolutionizing the world of medicine. In the future, we will be able to create digital twins that simulate various processes in our body. These digital representations of ourselves will be able to help us diagnose and treat diseases.
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    New teaching tools

    Virtual Reality in Dental Medicine

    Oral and maxillofacial surgeon Bernd Stadlinger and biologist Reinhard Gruber have developed the script for a virtual reality tool and an app focused on bone formation and degradation processes.
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    Us and ChatGPT

    “Like a Swiss army knife”

    ChatGPT is overrated as artificial intelligence and underrated as a language model, linguist Noah Bubenhofer says. He, philosopher Hans-Johann Glock, and computational linguist Rico Sennrich discuss how chatbots could change science, universities, and everyday work in the interview below.