Cyber Alp Retreat 2023

About Members of the Swiss Technology Observatory community met in Sachseln (Obwalden) in end of June 2023 and gave presentations on key topics such as scouting and technology and market monitoring. The event brought together many participants from the DDPS,...

From scattered sources to comprehensive technology landscape : A recommendation-based retrieval approach

Abstract Mapping the technology landscape is crucial for market actors to take informed investment decisions. However,given the large amount of data on the Web and its subsequent information overload, manually retrievinginformation is a seemingly ineffective and...

Fundamentals of Generative Large Language Models and Perspectives in Cyber-Defense

Abstract Generative Language Models gained significant attention in late 2022 / early 2023, notably with the introduction of models refined to act consistently with users’ expectations of interactions with AI (conversational models). Arguably the focal point of...

Cyber-Defence Campus Annual Report 2022

Foreword 2022 was a groundbreaking year for developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The company OpenAI unveiled two AI-based systems, DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, which are able to automatically generate images respectively texts of such high quality that they...