Active in science, pragmatic for applications.
As a freelancer I moderate between theory and practice, as well as between humans and computers.
Recent Activities
August 2023
Two papers accepted on one day!
The role of story-based categorizations in motion classification, with Frank Papenmeier and Juan Purcalla, will be published in the journal Cognitive Science.
AI Birds: Obstacles for Reaching Human-Level Performance and a New Role for Qualitative Reasoning, with Diedrich Wolter and Felix Haase, will be presented end of September at the International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning.
April 2023
New blog post: ChatGPT: dangerous or only useless?
November 2022
New blog post: How AI can save science
October 2022
Founding of my own company:
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH!
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH!
September 2022
Reviewing for Advances in Cognitive Systems
April 2022
I am happy to be part of the organizing committee of the workshop Robust AI for High-Stakes Applications. The workshop will be held in conjunction with KI 2022 in September 2022.
March 2022
After a year of planning and replanning, the Interdisciplinary College 2022 finally takes place between March 7 and 17!
February 2022
New blog series: Facets of Decision Making
January 2022
As part of the Tech:Lounge Winter Edition by the native web I give short introductions on Lisp and Prolog in the webinar about advanced language concepts (in German).
November 2021
As part of the Tech:Lounge Winter Edition by the native web I teach three webinars about Artificial Intelligence (in German).
October 2021
My first Youtube appearance: a Podcast about Ethics and AI by the native web (in German).
October 2021
New blog post: The Machinery of Intelligence
September 2021
Review of a joint research effort for the European Commission.
August 2021
I am now a fulltime freelancer and therefore available for more extensive projects!
July 2021
New blog series: Goals Considered Harmful
Mai 2021
New blog post: The Two Worlds of Machine Learning
April 2021
I have been appointed as one of the chairs for the Interdisciplinary College 2022! I am looking forward to shaping this wonderful with Jutta Kretzberg, Marieke van Vugt and the organising team!
January 2021
Together with Celmens Beckstein I contributed the Chapter on AI Search in the lately released "Handbuch der künstlichen Intelligenz".
December 2020
New blog series: Agile, Design and Buddhism
October 2020
Review of a joint research effort for the European Commission.
Mai 2020
Publication of a book chapter with Volker Strobel: MyPDDL: Tools for Efficiently Creating PDDL Domains and Problems
December 2019
My paper Shakey Ever After? Questioning Tacit Assumptions in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence was published in Künstliche Intelligenz.
October 2019
I gave a presentation about the state of autonomous driving in a session on Ethics and Legislation of Autonomous Systems in Würzburg.