ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE — FOUNDATIONS

Discovering Artificial Intelligence

History and definition

N.7/2022 · 1 September 2022

Artificial Intelligence is now woven into daily life — from voice assistants to spam filters, from facial recognition to medical diagnostics and autonomous vehicles — but it wasn't always so. The first article of the series traces its origins and definition.

Neural networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing: many different fields for one great technological challenge. The article frames AI as a macro-topic covering a vast range of applications and intersecting with many fields, explaining why it has become one of the most powerful and promising technologies of our time, capable of radically reshaping products, processes and business models. In the full PDF: the history and definition of Artificial Intelligence.

Originally published in Il Giornale dell'Ingegnere (CNI), 1 September 2022.

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