Roberto Saracco

Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America. He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the New Initiative Committee and co-chairs the Digital Reality Initiative. He is a member of the IEEE in 2050 Ad Hoc Committee. He teaches a Master course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento. He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.

Thank you Roberto // Grazie Roberto

Good evening, this is Roberto’s family. Thank you all for the kind messages we received and we really appreciate the support in these difficult days. Roberto’s passing has left us all in shock. For anyone that might be interested in a last goodbye, the funeral will be held in the …

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Why access to data when you can talk to data?

Conversational AI is changing the landscape. The possibility to interact with machines (applications) using natural language is a real game changer. So far we have been plagued with the so called IVRs, Intelligent Voice Responder, that are anything but intelligent (I don’t know about you but I always feel really …

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The quest for a longer life span

The quest for immortality has been part of the literature for as long as we can go back in time. There were immortal entities, the Gods (some got killed and may be resurfaced …). Could humans become immortal? There have been tales of fountains of youth, tales on the first …

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The LLM Jungle

Although most people have the perception that AI today is based on just a few of very large data models (Foundation Models, LLMs) there is quite a jungle out there and the landscape is rapidly changing. In the coming months (yes, months not years) we are going to see an …

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… and the Fakes become Truth

Last year, soon after the release of DALL-3 (and seeing the quality of the images generated) Adobe open up the possibility to sell AI generated images on their image marketplace, Adobe Stock. What seemed to be a good move is now questioned as becoming a can of worms for the …

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It’s bad, it can get worse …

I don’t know about you but I receive at least 10 malicious phishing mails and WhatsApp every month, and this not taking into account the many mails ending up in the spam folder. Hence, I was not surprised by the report by Insider Intelligence eMarketer (see the graphic) showing that …

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