Are Big Tech firms and their AI tools hampering innovation?

It would be nice if innovation could happen “just by dreaming,” says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, who stresses that imagining things is “crucial for being innovative.”

That is why the professor of information science at Oxford University believes artificial intelligence (AI) won’t be able to compete with human creativity for the time being.

“Humans can imagine things that don’t exist yet,” he told DW, because despite being trained on massive datasets AI is working with data from the past.