AI: il pensiero critico alla prova | Alessia Correani | TEDxUdine

Alessia is a strategic consultant at Microsoft Italy, where she focuses on innovation projects leveraging the ethical application of AI to enhance human intelligence. Humans have always sought to challenge their own limits, exploring new worlds, and more recently, even "hacking" their own intelligence through the development of general AI. Although human cognitive abilities have undergone significant evolution in terms of complexity over the centuries, in some cases this evolution has led to inverse effects: cognitive overload, the paradox of choice, overstimulation, and silos in production processes. In this context, technology and AI should be a way to bring order, simplify complexity, and enhance human intellectual capabilities, even to the point of replacing them. The paradox underlying humankind's desire to reproduce its own intelligence in a machine (thinking about it, what is intelligence?) is that it will always be the product of our own—human—interpretation. What if, instead of trying to reproduce human intelligence in a machine, we instead analyzed and valued their differences, in order to foster human-machine collaboration based on continuous learning and feedback loops? This talk was presented at a TEDx event that uses the TED conference format, but was independently organized by a local community. For more information, visit http://ted.com/tedx Alessia is a strategic consultant for Microsoft Italy: she deals with innovation projects that use ethical applications of AI to strengthen human intelligence. By firstly exploring new worlds, and then pushing itself towards the "hacking" of human intelligence through the development of general AI, humankind has always wanted to challenge its own limits, Although human cognitive abilities have undergone considerable evolution in terms of complexity over the centuries, it is fair to say that evolution has also led to inverse effects in certain specific cases, such as the ones of cognitive overload, paradox of choice, hyperstimulation and silos syndrome in supply chains. In this context, technology and AI should be a way to bring order, simplify complexity and enhance human intellectual abilities to maybe even replace them. The paradox of humankind's desire to recreate its own intelligence in a machine (and the question itself, “What is intelligence?”) consists in the fact that this, in the end, will always be the product of our - very much human - interpretation. And what if, instead of trying to reproduce human intelligence in machines, we analyze and value our differences to develop a man-machine collaboration based on continuous learning and feedback-loops? This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Born and raised in Rome, at 23 she decided to emigrate to England with her brain to study it more closely. After earning a bachelor's degree from Sapienza University, a master's degree from Bristol, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham, she continued to collaborate for a time with the Experimental Psychology department at Oxford before deciding that research (at least academic) wasn't her cup of tea. Through a growth process aimed at learning and continuously renewing her skills, Alessia found a way to apply her experiences as a neuroscientist to the world of technology. She started in London as a business analyst and then moved to product management, becoming an expert in big data and AI. Having returned to Italy, Alessia is now a strategic consultant at Microsoft Italy, where she works on innovation projects that leverage the ethical application of AI to enhance human intelligence. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx