About the Founder
Biography
Dr. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki earned her PhD at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in the field of energy-efficient cloud computing. After working for several years in the areas of open source engineering, cloud computing, and analytics, she is now a professor of data engineering at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Biel (Switzerland). She is also active as a keynote speaker, board member, and author.
She founded Makubri Technologies driven by the belief that understanding the power and limits of AI should be accessible to everyone. From leaders shaping the future to parents guiding their children, AI is reshaping the way we live and work.
Recent technological advances have resulted in a new generation of powerful text processing and generation tools, that produce text very similar to what a human could do. Such tools have the potential to change the way we work, learn and teach – and this book enables you to understand and be part of this exciting development. Did you wonder how tools like ChatGPT and co. work, but do not have a technical background? Then this is the right book for you!