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Long, long time ago the computer world was a vertical silos. IBM (at that time IBM was a synonym for computer) designed and built their own chips and so did , Univac, Siemens, Bull … (may be these names don’t ring a bell to many of you, by they represented …

I have been asked to contribute to a paper on AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, that will be published this Fall by the Computer Society (I’ll let you know when it is out). Specifically, I have been asked to look into the reasons why AI is an opportunity. I like to …

Just last year IBM got the world record for the most qubits working in a quantum computer: 433. This number marked the continuous progress in quantum computer “processing power”. The more Qubits you have the more computational power you have (at least in theory!). Differently  from a “bit” that has …

Just finished a call of the AI Working  Group of Anitec Assinform where we discussed the status of a White Paper focusing on  the actual use of AI  by SMEs in Italy. There is a clear gap between the actual -conscious- use  of AI  and its potential as demonstrated by …

I pointed out in the previous post the widening gap between the capability of our brain to acquire knowledge and the (growing) amount of knowledge potentially available. Teaming resources may work, and has worked, for companies but up to a certain point.  Even a company cannot grow its resources to …

As mentioned the concept of Cognitive Digital Twin, first defined in the context of smart robots by IBM as a way to represent the knowledge of the robot, an ensemble of robots on the shop floor, has been applied to the representation of the knowledge of a person, becoming a …

I am no expert in quantum computer, nor in quantum computing. I read a lot about both, I attended quite a number of meetings where quantum was discussed (including the ones at the IEEE Future Direction Committee where there is a Quantum Initiative), yet I remain uncertain about the real …

In these last few weeks I have been working on the preparation of an education course that will be published by IEEE on the topic of VR and AR roles in Smart Factories. Smart Factories (has anything that can/should be labelled as “smart”) involve knowledge and being a factory an …

The evolution of Watson. It is an intelligent “machine” able to put its knowledge to use in several fields. The image shows the evolution of Watson’s application capabilities. Watson is now providing knowledge services in several areas, including healthcare. Image credit: IBM We come now to the second point: what …

As artificial intelligence is progressing we can shift from pure syntactical interactions to semantic based interaction. This is what happens with the newest robots that are more and more aware of: their surrounding the problem space they are addressing the goal they pursue the” help” they can get from other …