Tag Archives: symbiotic autonomous systems

Digital Twins are spreading with more and more companies adopting them in a growing number of market sectors. Design and Manufacturing today are leading the way (watch the clip by T-Systems International). As this happens we are seeing Digital Twins becoming a bridge that connects the physical and the virtual …

I had the pleasure (it actually took plenty of work and headache, but saying that you had the pleasure is the standard phrase…) of coordinating the February issue of Mondo Digitale focussing on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems. Part of the articles are written in Italian and part in English.  For the …

: Today I am going to give a Webinar (in Italian) on the impact of the Digital Transformation on jobs and education to an audience of teachers from schools in Italy. The crucial point we are facing is that on the one hand knowledge means potential revenue, on the other …

Our brain is constantly seeking to understand the environment, not in terms of asking profound questions about existence (this is a peculiar pastime we have invented over the last 10,000 years) rather in terms of capturing reality and taking action if action is needed (fight or flee). The information coming …

Humans have changed their ecosystem in many ways, we see signs everywhere and yet we are so used to the here and now that we don’t even notice the profound changes we made. Take chickens, as a point in case. I remember some 30 years ago I went to Cuba …

Machine’s Self, machine’s awareness Could a machine have a self, perceive its own identity and be aware of it? (with machine I am including the AI part). The question has been debated for quite a long time and it is still without an answer that can be accepted by all. …

In the recently published second White Paper by the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative there are very brief mentioning of self, selves and super self in relation to machines and human machine symbioses. Here I would like to share some thoughts on this based on discussions that took place in that …

I listened to an interview to Elon Musk, watch the clip, where he was asked about his new venture, Neuralink, objective. The journalists asked if he was aiming at implanting a chip in our brain that would enable the transfer of knowledge to from the brain. Elon Musk said yes, …

It would be nice to have a time machine a go back in the past. Rather than studying on history books live the life of our ancestors just for a day, walk along their trails like a ghost observing what goes (went) on. Virtual reality technology is here to help. …

To talk about the evolution of intelligence one should first “define” what intelligence is and based on that definition provide a ranking of intelligence. Once we have that we could start discussing intelligence evolution. Scientists and psychologists are still struggling on this so in this short piece I would take …