Using AI to generate images is becoming ever more popular and the number of web services supporting this is growing. Most of them require some programming but there are a few (more coming!) that are straightforward. You just need to type in a sentence and wait a few seconds for …
Read More »Can you drive different car types? So does AI
I just finished to read an article on MIT Technology review and I should say I am impressed. A UK start up, Wayve, has managed to create an AI software that can drive both a can and a van. This follows on their success in having an AI program that …
Read More »From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 – III
After publishing the first post on the transition from Industry 4.0 to 5.0 I received this interesting comment: There is a Sustainability reason behind the shift from industry 4.0 to industry 5.0. We need to put again humans at the center of the equation. Industry 4.0 is an intensification on …
Read More »What will “knowledge” mean in 2050? – X
10. Intelligence Augmentation How many times did you pick up your smartphone searching for a restaurant, looking direction to an address, finding the age of an actor or the date of a historical event, calculating a percentage? I bet so many times that you don’t know how many. Besides, most of …
Read More »DT evolution in Manufacturing – III
The continuous expansion of the data set accrued by the DT and the embedding of software capable of data analytics (more and more AI based) on those data is de-facto transforming the DT into a knowledge entity. The knowledge is about the PhT -what it is, how it is performing, …
Read More »Nice image. Who drew it?
I have already posted news on the possibility to use AI to create images and changing existing ones. I, for one, am using an image editor that leverages AI to detect object boundaries so that you can change that object without affecting the other parts of the photo, like increasing …
Read More »Technology Predictions 2022: HPC-AI-HPDA
On the one hand we are seeing the trend towards “intelligence at the edge“. On the other hand the High Performance Computing – HPC- and High Performance Data Analytics – HPDA- are being challenged by the new approaches to AI. As shown in the graphic, the market for HPC is …
Read More »The changing landscape of scientific publications
I had the opportunity, few days ago, to attend a talk in the framework of IEEE 2050, on the evolution of scientific publishing. Having a peak into what/how people will be publishing and what/how people will access the published content some 30 years from now is really challenging. Hence the …
Read More »Ethical design of AI-IoT systems
I was involved recently in a discussion promoted by EcoSurge, an initiative helping SMEs engage the sustainability transition and create value out of it via digital innovation, circular economy principles. They are planning a panel, see figure and register here, to discuss ethical design of AI-IoT Systems. It is not …
Read More »Bringing eCommerce forward and … backward
The pandemic has accelerated the access to eCommerce and, possibly more important in terms of future evolution, it has brought more customers and more shops (owners) to the cyberspace. This is creating more competition in a market seeing a few behemoths and a growing number of small businesses. For the …
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