Martin Potthast

@martin-potthast.com

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Professor at the University of Kassel, https://hessian.AI, and https://ScaDS.AI. Member of @webis.de Research in information retrieval #IR, natural language processing #NLP, and artificial intelligence.

A photo of two cats sitting side by side on the backrest of a light-colored leather sofa, right in front of a slanted skylight window. Both cats are facing the camera with wide, round eyes and calm, slightly serious expressions. The cat on the left is smaller, golden-brown with darker shading and a fluffy tail hanging straight down. The cat on the right is larger, pale cream/gray with a plush coat and a longer tail also hanging down. The window behind them has raindrops or condensation on the glass, and rooftops can be seen outside. The wooden window frame and angled ceiling suggest an attic or top-floor room.
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Teaser Image: The text says ReNeuIR’25 - Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
Continued conversation: Me: Please take another close look at the yellow pieces. GPT: You're right, a closer look reveals that yellow is actually in a very strong position! All four yellow pieces are already in the target zone or very close to it. It seems that yellow is now in the best position to win the game, as all pieces are well secured and can no longer be easily captured. Red is still close behind, but yellow could win the race if no bad luck happens!
Board game of "Mensch, ärgere dich nicht", mid game with six players. Yellow has won.
Board game of "Mensch, ärgere dich nicht", mid game with six players. Yellow is in the lead with three pieces secured, followed by red and purple with two each, black with one piece secured, and green and blue with none.
Board game of "Mensch, ärgere dich nicht", mid game with six players. No player has any of his own pieces secured, yet.
Contrasted screenshots of the Google News front page, and a response from ChatGPT 4o when it is asked "What were the news today?" Google News focuses on important events, whereas ChatGPT uses four news articles from two news outlets it found for this query; a response wholly inadequate.
Figure 1: Illustration of ads (yellow highlighting) on search engine results pages (SERPs); the traditional list SERP (left) and the new text SERP (right). Uncolored, the separation of ads and organic search results would be heavily blurred on text SERPs, despite their disclosure using the “Ad” keyword.