Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

I have been involved in the AIXA Forum, as part of a panel on the use of AI by Italian Industry. The panel followed a few presentations and what struck me most was the common theme that powered those presentation: Our human intelligence is better than AI, AI is not …

The availability of tools supporting the writing of articles and books plus the availability of platforms to distribute them has reached a tipping point where more and more people are writing and collectively amateur writers output is exceeding the one of professional writers both in terms of production AND in …

The progress of Artificial Intelligence, as I pointed out in previous posts, has taken the shape of an avalanche, not so much  in its performances (increase of “intelligence”) but in terms of usefulness as measured by its increased application in many (all?) areas. The fact is that today we have …

Yesterday, October 31st, Anitec Assinform, the Italian Association of IT Industries in Italy held an event in Milan at MADE (the centre for Industry 4.0, an impressive hands-on lab supporting industrial innovation) to discuss the status of AI in Italy as seen from the Industry. The occasion was the presentation …

I spent last week in the US and, as you have to do in the US, I rented a car. I got A Mitsubishi Outlander (didn’t ask for it, I didn’t even know it existed). I was intrigued from the very first time I inserted the reverse to get out …

There used to be a time when a photo could be taken as a mirror of reality. It is no longer so, as pointed out in a nice Wired article “None of your photos are real“. I read it a few hours after having written yesterday post, Fake Fakes, and …

AI generated images have become, in just a few months, so pervasive, and most crucially so convincing that many researchers have rushed to find ways of detecting if an image is a photo or if it is something created out of the blue by AI. Optic has released a tool, …

Generative AI is now entering in apps, significanlty changing the way we use them with some unexpected twist. The first point emerging is that Generative AI is becoming a powerful tool for developers both in terms of easing the coding and in delivering additional, appealing functionality. The second one is …

For at least 70 years scientists, researchers and lay people have been comparing the brain to the computer (actually, I remember that when I was young, taking the very first course on computers in high school, the computer was called “cervello elettronico”, Electronic Brain in Italian). The pursue of an …

If you ever had to place suitcases and packages in the trunk when living for a vacation with family (4 kids and a wife) you will have surely realized how fitting all that stuff in the trunk is a big challenge. I remember loading one way, taking it off and …