Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of our lives. It is so intertwined and widespread that most of the time we do not realise it is there. You take a picture with your smartphone and it automatically decides what to focus on. Well, that “automatically” requires AI that inspect …
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On November 5th I will be presenting the outcome of discussions with several CEO/CTO/CIO that took place over the last 4 months as part of the FDC Industry Advisory Board -IAB- activity. In this blog series I will point out the main points soliciting your comments. The broad, and increasing, availability …
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I am pleased to announce that the special issue of the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems, edited by Okyay Kaynak and Francesco Flammini has been published. It makes for an interesting reading if you are working in the area of autonomous systems, as well as …
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Few months ago I wrote a number of posts discussing Post-pandemic Megatrends, leveraging on discussions I had as part of the Industry Advisory Board of the Future Direction Committee of IEEe and of the report of the Future Today Institute. I revised the posts based on comments received and more …
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If you follow my blog you are well aware of my thoughts on privacy. With the expansion of the cyberspace and our continuous presence in it we have lost a good portion of our privacy. For some people the cyberspace (read social media) is a stage where they can play …
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There is an interesting article on Spectrum discussing the paradigm shift undertaken by iRobot in their new software generation for their vacuum cleaners, the Roomba. The discussion really rung a bell since we have been discussing the interplay of autonomous systems with people at the FDC and back in 2018 …
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