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The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) is often misused. We are not talking about intelligence, but the ability to process billions of billions of data at a very high speed. Roberto Cingolani explains that “all extremely complex tasks that require millions of hours of work by a human can be accelerated by AI-based systems.”
That is why companies, not only technological ones, have a profound need to digitalise, i.e. to transform the most important images, information and data into digital files. These must be sorted and stored in a large memory, the cloud, which in turn must be connected to a supercomputer. The High-Performance Computer (HPC), with the ability to perform billions of operations per second, allows this data to be analysed in real time, as it happens in the human brain.
In this scenario, according to Cingolani, it becomes essential to increase STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) competences. “In Italy, we produce 35,000 STEM graduates, which are not enough to satisfy the search for the new generations to develop these technologies. In order to foster the development of useful and ethical artificial intelligence,” Cingolani points out, “it is necessary for Italy to continue investing in natural intelligence, to enhance our ability to exploit technology in a positive way.”