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Levi’s announced a partnership with Lalaland to use Artificial Intelligence generated characters for their ads (watch the clip). The announcement generated widespread concerns that yet another industry segment was using AI to replace human jobs. Levi’s responded clarifying  that they are planning to use synthetic characters to augment their capability …

We have  seen in the past 15 years plenty  of Digital Assistant, so an additional one should not be a news at all. Yet, the  one offered by IngestAI stand out from the pack. The difference is that this digital assistant is a sort of Personal Digital Twin, actually, a …

The Italian roadshow to discuss the application of artificial intelligence made its third stop in Florence, Tuscany,  Italy. It is  a great  experience for me to hear what industry, particularly Small and Medium Enterprises, is doing with AI. Although  Anitec Assinform, the organiser of these events in conjunction with Confindustria …

Amidst concerns that Generative AI may substitute white collars in several types of jobs I am seeing some companies leveraging on Generative AI as a tool to deliver better services and investing in training their staff to make use of it. This seems to be the case in the recent …

Just yesterday I  posed the question if we have reached an inflection point  in the evolution of AI, shifting  from an effort by researchers to push the evolution further to the AI taking the lead and self-evolving itself (by providing AI tools that allows researchers to accelerate the pace of …

Having discussed in the previous posts the self-sustaining process that is fuelling AI evolution it is time to consider what is happening right now and what might be characterising the coming years: the uptake of evolution in the AI’s hands, so to say. The cycle shown in the previous post …

This  week I attended the AI talks organized by Anitec Assinform, part of a series on Artificial Intelligence, this one focusing on ethics. The ethical aspects are both important and difficult to address. Even once addressed (i.e. an ethical framework has been agreed within a given community of users) it …

As  outlined in the previous post(s) the Big Players are leveraging  on their huge availability of natural language repositories and have been able to create algorithms (transformers) to exploit them. The training requires immense processing power, difficult to estimate the cost, but it is in the million $. According to …

Let me spend a few more words on this “AI in the small” from the point of view of the evolution of AI (both as a consequence and as a fuel to its evolution). As shown in the graphic (bear with me, I am not a professional designer and I …

Clearview AI,  a US company,  has been working on face recognition for several years now. It has harvested publicly available images of faces to train its AI software to recognise faces, like digital fingerprints. A good part of the faces have been harvested from the ones published by each one …