Bonn Science Night 2026
How will artificial intelligence transform the medicine of the future? What role will it play in addressing societal challenges such as education, caregiving, and managing natural hazards? These questions were…
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Current News
What AI Actually Does in Diffusion Models
In the search for new drugs, artificial intelligence in the form of diffusion models is being used in drug design. What exactly does AI do in this context? Dr. Andrea…
Second edition of the Industry Symposium “AI in the Life Sciences”
On June 23 and 24, 2025, the second edition of “AI in the Life Sciences – An Industry Symposium” will take place at Schloss Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin, Germany. The…
2025-2026 Perspective: From Making AI Work to Making It Matter
The past decade of AI was largely driven by one question: how to make large language models work at all. How to scale them, stabilize them, and push their capabilities…
Welcome Party 2025
A wonderfully diverse and international group that enriches our community year after year. As always, a major highlight: The legendary Kahoot quiz, bringing lots of fun, teamwork, and maybe even…
Making AI empathic – ERC Starting Grant for Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek
A major success for the b-it: The European Research Council (ERC) is providing millions of euros for projects in the fields of computer science, economics, and evolutionary biology. Prof. Dr.…
ExplorAItion Day at Deutsche Telekom Headquarters
B-IT international Master students had the exclusive possibility to participate in the ExplorAItion day of Deutsche Telekom. The day themed ‚Let’s break silos, foster collaboration, and elevate AI initiatives‘ was…
Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry
A study by the b-it proves that transformer models used in chemistry learn only statistical correlations.
Am I just my demographics? Challenges in Modeling Annotators’ Perspectives
In the field of Data Perspectivism, perspective has emerged as an umbrella term encompassing annotators’ points of view and culturally shaped worldviews. When modeling annotators, researchers have explored a variety…
Exploring bias, explaining hate: two critical on detection in studies harm Natural Language Processing
The study of harms in NLP is a fast-evolving field of research, which in a few years has seen the need of considering the subjectivity that characterizes this phenomenon. In…
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Robotics team from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg wins world championship title at RoboCup in Brazil
July 2025 • Hohchschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Artificial intelligence: Detecting arteriosclerosis from photos of the back of the eye
November 2022 • Das Ärzteblatt
The b-it – Twenty years of academic teaching and research with an international reputation
November 2022 • RWTH Aachen
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