The slide deck I used during my speech at the event EHMA General Assembly 2024 that has been held at Venice Lido on 13th April 2024, is available here, freely downloadable and reusable under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence.
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I recently selected some free resources for my students to learn or explore Artificial Intelligence topics. Since they may also be useful to others, I have published them all on this page 👉 https://www.massimocanducci.eu/free-resources-for-learning-ai/
Happy studying!
In early November, OpenAI, renowned for developing the ChatGPT platform, introduced the capability to create custom versions of its popular chatbot. This innovation allows for easy customization without any programming skills. Users can now modify the chatbot’s standard behavior and enhance its knowledge base with ease. With just a few clicks, anyone can craft their own personalized version of ChatGPT. In the future, there will also be opportunities to monetize the chatbot’s usage. For example, a chef could develop a system that offers recipes and culinary tips from their books, while an illustrator might create an image generator that emulates their unique artistic style. These custom chatbots can be made available either for free or for a fee.
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Who buys for us
We are used to thinking of ourselves as the main actors of our purchases, people who consciously buy goods and services based on will or necessity and in complete freedom.
For now, this is the case, but things are about to change rapidly, as a new player is entering this economic ecosystem that involves the exchange of money, our money, for products and services: artificial intelligence algorithms.
Here we go.
Apple has finally introduced its Augmented Reality headset, called Vision Pro, that resembles a diving mask and costs $3,499.
Many laud it for its technical features, the 5,000 patents it has generated, the immediate availability of services as soon as it becomes available, and for its biometric authentication.
Many others criticize it for its aesthetics, price, poor battery life, and the sense of isolation and separation from reality that it could induce in users.
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Today, humans have a satisfying interaction with machines when they have good input and output devices, which is why people generally prefer computers with large screens, reliable keyboards, and precise mouses. In the same way, when drawing, people prefer to use precision graphics tablets or tablets with high-quality pens.
It is unthinkable to draw with a mouse or write long texts with the keyboard of a smartphone. Technically it could be done, but in practice, it is a torture that anyone would want to avoid.
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Throughout its history, humanity has always tried to improve its physical conditions, its performance, its abilities and at the same time it has always sought solutions to mitigate its weaknesses or disabilities.
In a way it has always tried to “increase” itself from the point of view of physical strength, sharpness of the senses and also of knowledge.
In this long journey it has always used the technologies that its historical period was able to make available to it: for example, it learned to build machines capable of performing some tiring or dangerous tasks instead of it and began to equip itself with devices that help overcome some of its disabilities. The eyeglasses that many of us wear are an excellent example of a device created to overcome or mitigate a disability and which in the space of a few decades has become commonplace, transforming itself into an aesthetic and fashion accessory.
Read MoreThese smart gloves allow you to translate sign language movements into natural language words and phrases.
This approach breaks down the language barriers and allows people, who cannot speak, to communicate in natural language with people who do not know sign language.
It is about overcoming an important disability that severely limits the possibility of communicating and often creates socialization problems, the possibility of attending school in a natural way and the possibility of carrying out certain work tasks.
An excellent example of how we can “increase” the human being, going precisely in the direction of Augmented Lives.
And we are only at the beginning.
A future awaits us in which the way we relate to technology will radically change, and since technology is a formidable process enabler, this radical change will profoundly affect our daily life, changing the way we relate to the world and the way we will work.
At the center of this change there is a paradigm that is not necessarily new, that of Extended Reality, which has not yet found its full and complete realization in the consumer world for purely technological and market reasons, but we know that technology evolves rapidly and new markets are often triggered thanks to the availability of new opportunities offered by technology itself.
Artificial Intelligence has a history that goes back a long way, the first major works were by John McCarthy, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon and date back to the 1950s. The first experiments on Blockchains (chains of blocks) occurred instead in 1991 thanks to the work of researchers Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, even if the real revolution took place only in 2008 with Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym which nobody has yet been able to ascribe to an individual or a team, with the presentation of the paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”.
Despite this important age difference, these are two enabling technological ecosystems with interesting complementarities and which are inevitably destined to collaborate closely in the near future.