“Überblick” – a new provotype using OpenAI

The new “Überblick” prototype developed by the project team led by Michael Shorter and Melanie Rickenmann can do so much more than its predecessor, the so-called WordCloud.

*The “Überblick” have also been used during the annual meeting of the municipality of Emmen on January 15, 2024.*

While the WordCloud, as the name suggests, reproduced what was said in word clouds (these appeared larger or smaller depending on the frequency of the recognized words), the “Überblick” now combines pure speech recognition with artificial intelligence, more precisely with the AI OpenAI, which is also used in ChatGPT.

In a nutshell, it offers the user a choice between three different functions:

Summary of 150 words
Image generation
Haiku – short poem

*Presentation of the “Überblick” at the annual meeting of the municipality of Emmen on January 15, 2024 by Sabine Junginger (project manager). Carolin Röckelein*

The devices are currently being tested and put to the test at home for two weeks by two households who also took part in the first home study three years ago.