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 »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 »This is really, really scaring
Artificial Intelligence can be a wonderful tool helping us in many ways but is has some dark sides as well. This is one: there is a website that you can use to upload a photo of a person (a woman, more specifically) and using AI the site will return you …
Read More »Connecting the Unconnected
Worldwide there are 7.97 billion people and 10.98 billion mobile connections. There are 7.26 billion mobile users that is 91% of people own a mobile phone. Great, so where is the problem? Unfortunately, it is the usual problem we have with with statistics. If I ate 2 chicken and you …
Read More »Smile, AI is watching you!
Have you ever switched off your computer camera when joining a video conf because you did not feel at ease with people watching your room or the way you have dressed up? Well, now you might have a further reason to keep your computer camera off: artificial intelligence based software …
Read More »AR to Augment winning chances at poker
Augmented Reality is great, no doubt about it. It let us merge the digital with the physical space. The problem today is that we are missing “tools” that can make this bridge seamless. Sure, I can use my smartphone (and I use it from time to time) to get a …
Read More »Cognitive Digital Twins: bridging minds and machine – X: CDT and Me
Cognitive Digital Twins open up a whole new world. In these last 300 years we have developed amazing machines (our ancestors invented levers, the inclined plane, cogs, wheels, pullers and mills but the age of machines, as we understand them today, started with the industrial revolution as we learnt to …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXII
– Delegation of functions to the CDT for interaction in the company cyberspace Once at level IV a CDT can act autonomously in a company cyberspace to make knowledge available to company’s resources. These resources can be other CDTs and employees. A CDT may interact with other company’s CDT searching …
Read More »Covid-19 is a perfect storm accelerating DT societal waves
I received this articulated comment from Derrick de Kerckhove that I find thought provoking and I am pleased to share it here, along the sequel on Personal Digital Twins in the epidemic context. Regarding both the viral threat of Covid-19 and the haphazard regulatory reactions of the world’s governments, the …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – V
As I am writing this post there is an ongoing discussion on Italian newspapers on the extent to which it is reasonable to protect privacy rather than monitoring people movement to identify risk of contagion. Whilst just last week there was, at least on newspapers and on their reporting of …
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