A group of Fontys ICT students were allowed to make an appearance on Saturday evening in the television programme Moltalk, the chat show of the popular game show Who's the Mole? The reason: commissioned by lecturer Frans Mouws, the students are trying to find out who this season's mole is using artificial intelligence, or AI.
And so the Eindhoven students suddenly found themselves under the bright studio lights. One minute you are given a research assignment, the next you are invited and appear on television. Because yes, AI is the glitz at the moment. And at many a broadcaster, they are probably holding their hearts when it comes to programmes like this: is AI going to ruin our entire programme formula?
It won't go that far for a while, says ICT lecturer Mouws. "Fortunately not. Although you never know what it will be like in a while. On the other hand: AI is not a magic ball. It's very simple really: AI can't do anything better than humans, only much faster. It will never produce something better than a group of psychologists and ICTs can discover, but a hundred times faster."
Fontys students (standing from left to right) Patrick, Juliusz, Martin, Simeon, Laura and Vincent. In the middle student Yap, presenters Marlijn Weerdenburg and Splinter Chabot and Fontys ICT lecturer Frans Mouws.