Enthusiastic experts have no doubt at all that artificial intelligence will prevail. But leaving the rose-colored AI glasses aside and assuming the viewpoint of customers and employees, obstacles beyond the technology itself become evident: Currently, there are three problems preventing the widespread acceptance of artificial intelligence.

Algorithms accompany our lives and our workdays, but most of us do not really know what they actually are. It is all the more important to find out what the term stands for, and where algorithms come into play.

Though artificial intelligence (AI) has been the technical buzzword in recent years, the field of AI is far from new: The first pioneer projects were already conceived back in the 1950s. But what developments have taken place to make almost every industry think about using AI? Let us have a look at the historical development of the technology to this day.

 Looking at artificial intelligence, one is quickly confronted with the question of ethics. This topic is also much discussed in recent media reports on artificial intelligence – the voices range from euphoric to anxious, from hopeful to warning. The questions posed in this context show that there are limits for AI and for the developers.