Best of GPN24
My picks from the Gulaschprogrammiernacht 24 in Karlsruhe.
Politics
Marc-Uwe Kling — Känguru news
If you know the “Känguru” books, you definitely can’t miss Marc-Uwe Kling’s talk. Bonus: he was on stage 15 minutes early and read the first chapter of his book aloud (not on the recording though).
“Concerning” category
Drone Wars
Current state of drone technology — but not for making great footage.
AI in Warfare
Not for the faint-hearted, but very well presented and absolutely worth thinking about:
Health
It’s rare that IT people care about their health — but this talk about dietary supplements is genuinely good:
IT Security
Hacking household robots
Making a Unitree robot start boxing.
AI in the Operating System
Why it’s not a great idea to build AI features into the OS. Meredith Whittaker is also the CEO of Signal:
To close…
…it’s always interesting to see the scale of the event in numbers. Presented as tradition in the “Infrastructure Review”:
I hope you enjoyed the selection. There were so many talks — feel free to browse through the other presentations, there’s plenty more interesting stuff!
