AI, robots and algorithms: 10 German tech words

(Sg.)

📌 Künstliche Intelligenz wird immer häufiger in der Medizin eingesetzt.

→ Artificial intelligence is being used more and more in medicine.

💡 Intelligence made by Kunst (skill, art) = artificial intelligence 🧠 Short form: KI, said ‘kah-EE’.

⚠ Germans don't say AI — they say KI.

(Pl. die Roboter)

📌 In der Autoindustrie arbeiten schon viele Roboter.

→ Many robots already work in the car industry.

💡 From Czech robota (hard labour) 🦾 A machine made to work!

Bonus Same in the plural: die Roboter · robot vacuum = der Saugroboter

(Pl. die Technologien)

📌 Neue Technologien verändern unser Leben.

→ New technologies are changing our lives.

💡 Ends in -ie, so it's die 💡 Stress the last syllable.

Bonus Similar: die Technik = technology, engineering, gadgets

📌 Heute bezahlen viele Leute digital.

→ Nowadays many people pay digitally.

💡 From Latin digitus (finger) 👆 Counting on your fingers became ‘digital’.

Bonus The opposite is analog.

(entwickelt – hat entwickelt)

📌 Die Firma entwickelt eine neue App für Senioren.

→ The company is developing a new app for older people.

💡 ent- (un-) + wickeln (to wind) = to unwind, unfold 🧶 You unfold an idea into a product.

Bonus die Entwicklung = development · a developer = der Entwickler

((no pl.))

📌 Die Digitalisierung verändert die Arbeitswelt.

→ Digitalization is changing the world of work.

💡 digital + -isierung (-ization) = digitalisation 📲 Ends in -ung, so it's die.

Bonus The verb: digitalisieren

(Pl. die Algorithmen)

📌 Der Algorithmus entscheidet, welche Beiträge wir sehen.

→ The algorithm decides which posts we see.

💡 Named after the Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi 🧮 A person became a word!

⚠ Plural: die Algorithmen (-us becomes -en)

(Pl. die Automatisierungen)

📌 Durch die Automatisierung fallen viele einfache Jobs weg.

→ Automation is eliminating many simple jobs.

💡 automatisch + -isierung = automation ⚙️ Same pattern as Digitalisierung.

Bonus automatisch = automatic

(Pl. die Innovationen)

📌 Ohne Innovationen verliert die Industrie ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.

→ Without innovation, industry loses its competitiveness.

💡 novus (new) is hiding inside 🚀 -tion sounds like ‘tsyohn’ — and it's always die.

Bonus innovativ = innovative

(Sg.)

📌 Maschinelles Lernen wird bereits zur Früherkennung von Krankheiten eingesetzt.

→ Machine learning is already being used for the early detection of diseases.

💡 The Maschine learns = machine learning 🤓 A verb used as a noun is always das.

⚠ The adjective changes its ending: beim maschinellen Lernen