Luca Marconi, a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Social Thingum and a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication of the University of Milan-Bicocca, was interviewed by Luca Tremolada and Andrea Gianotti on Info Data, the data blog of Il Sole 24 Ore. Here is the full interview: The topics addressed were many: …
When is the deadline for the AIABI 2021 workshop?
From the organizing committee of the workshop “Artificial Intelligence and Applications for Business and Industries” an official communication has been received that will surely bring relief to companies wishing to take part. Here’s what happened Given the large number of requests received by the committee, it has been decided to extend the Call for Papers deadline to Monday, October 25, …
How to improve Human-Computer Interaction in e-learning?
Even this year we had the pleasure of presenting our scientific contribution to the National Conference Didamatica, long a point of reference for discussing emerging topics in the evolution of teaching and the school of the future, regarding Human-Computer Interaction: this year’s edition was dedicated to the theme “Artificial Intelligence for Education” and to the ways in which AI algorithms, …
InnovUp for AIABI 2021: a commitment to Italian innovation
InnovUp officially granted its patronage to the workshop Artificial Intelligence for Applications for Business and Industries, organized by Social Thingum and held at the upcoming “20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence”, directly managed by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. InnovUp therefore recognizes the value of the event organized for November 29, 2021, where the academic …
“Accelerate in Israel”, the acceleration program for startups between Italy and Israel
“Accelerate in Israel”, the development and internationalization program for Italian startups The full-scale development and internationalization program “Accelerate in Israel”, now in its third edition, is open to the most ambitious and innovative Italian startups thanks to the collaboration with the Israel-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center and ICE Agency, the agency for promoting Italian companies …
Artificial Intelligence in Banking, between technology and ethics
Artificial Intelligence in Banking: between Technology and Ethics The financial sector is one of the most delicate and studied fields for the employment of Artificial Intelligence in recent years. From the use of conversational chatbots for assistance to trading, algorithms allow banks to reduce errors and significantly improve the performance of data processing and computation. In particular, according to a …
When Artificial Intelligence is racist: Islamophobia and “Garbage In Garbage Out”
“The real reason why Muslims are terrorists is found in the Holy Quran. They are terrorists because Islam is a totalitarian and supremacist ideology that inherently contains a predisposition to violence and physical jihad.” This sounds like an excerpt from a speech given by a right-wing nationalist politician with barely concealed racist tendencies… yet it is a sentence from GPT-3, …
AIABI 2021: Postponed the Call for Papers Deadline
The submission deadline for the papers participating in the AIABI 2021 Workshop has been postponed to October 15. “Artificial Intelligence and Applications for Business and Industries – AIABI” is the workshop focused on the use and applications of AI in business and corporate contexts promoted by SocialThingum. The workshop will be held as part of the AIXIA 2021 conference, organized …
Federated Learning: Machine Learning Against COVID-19
For the first time, Cambridge Hospital has begun using a machine learning algorithm to predict the oxygen needs of COVID-19 patients through a Federated Learning model. What does Federated Learning, or federated learning, mean? Federated Learning is a type of Artificial Intelligence algorithm in which a central server processes the results obtained from several other servers, or “nodes”, based on …