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 …
Read More »Designing the material of the future, courtesy of Google’s DeepMind
There is a staggering number of materials in the world most of them are part of the planet history (either present when the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago or resulting from its evolution through the eons) However a small but growing set of materials are man-made, like steel, …
Read More »We drink too little beer, compared to the fuel swallowed by our flights …
When buying an airline ticket are you paying the extra fee to offset the carbon footprint of your flight? Kudos if you are doing that (I confess I never did): you are part of the 1% traveller, according to Lufthansa, that choose to pay a bit more to cover for …
Read More »Artificial intelligence in AEC: Architecture, Engineering and Construction
I gave a presentation this week to the Association of Construction Industry in Italy, ANCE, on the topic of AI. I did that on behalf of Anitec Assinform, the Italian association of Information Technology Industry that is working (among several other things) on fostering both awareness and use of Artificial …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »… 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 …
Read More »The Industrial Metaverse is here to stay – VI
Time to check what is the status of the Industrial Metaverse at the end of 2023. Here it comes handy a recent report by EY and Nokia summarizing the interview of hundreds of companies round the globe. There were a few that considered the IM a fad (buzzword) but that …
Read More »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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