Critics of the Swiss artificial intelligence model Apertus have "misinterpreted" its objectives, according to an eminent computer scientist. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Developed by the Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich, as well as the Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing (CSCS) in Lugano, Apertus is an open-source, multilingual and 100% Swiss AI model. Presented on September 2, it has aroused enormous interest, but several experts have also criticised its performance. + Fact and fiction about the Swiss AI model Apertus "Above all, I note that many people have misinterpreted the primary objective of this project," Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, professor of computer science at the University of Fribourg said in an interview in La Liberté. "The fact that several sites use the Apertus models to create a conversational agent has created confusion." "Contrary to what these initiatives suggest, the Federal Institutes of Technology and the ...
