THEArtificial intelligence no longer speaks only the English of Silicon Valley or the technological dialects of Beijing. From today, he also has a strong Italian accent, cultured and accessible to all. Is called ChatMinerva AI and it is a virtual assistant capable of reading not only words, but also images, documents and, if desired, even daily simplification needs.
ChatMinerva AI, the new all-Italian artificial intelligence
This new all-Italian digital creature, was born in the laboratories of La Sapienza University of Romethanks to the passionate work of dozens of researchers, doctoral students and students led by Professor Roberto Navigli. An ambitious challenge: demonstrate that also in Italywith a lot of passion and a decidedly smaller budget compared to the American giants, you can innovate at the highest levels.
An assistant for everyday life
ChatMinerva’s work thus enters that space of daily complexity that takes away precious time. Like for example when you find yourself in front of a folder of work documents accumulated on the desk or that long technical report, full of graphs and market data, which should be studied before the morning meeting.
No algorithms or overseas servers. ChatMinerva brings “made in Italy” to the heart of the global digital revolution. (screenshot https://minerva-ai.org/)
Dialogue with images and texts
You can show him an image and ask him to tell you about it, or give him a complex document and ask him for a clear and quick summary. His short-term memory has become very great: he can manage very long conversations and monumental texts without losing the thread of the conversation. Furthermore, knows how to browse the Web in real time to look for fresh information, using a privacy-conscious search engine like DuckDuckGo. And, in fact, an important aspect of ChatMinerva is its total transparency.
ChatMinerva AI, a technology that learns from people
The model has grown and perfected thanks to a real community: over five thousand people have already used it in recent months, giving rise to thousands of conversations. This continuous exchange it allowed artificial intelligence to learn real Italianthe one made up of nuances, idioms and cultural sensitivities that overseas programs often fail to grasp. Furthermore, the virtual chats remain within an Italian public university.
The autumn future and supercomputers
ChatMinerva’s journey is just beginning. If today the digital assistant is based on a solid structure, an epochal leap is already expected for autumn. In fact, a new, much more powerful model is being trained, which will travel on Leonardo, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world which is located in Bologna, within Cineca, the Italian inter-university consortium for automatic calculation.
An increasingly autonomous and human artificial intelligence
There is also an “agent” version in the pipelinethat is, an even more autonomous intelligence, capable of planning actions and choosing on its own the best resources to solve a problem posed to it. The objective, however, beyond its usefulness, is above all to demonstrate that Europe, and Italy in particular, they can express their own authoritative voice in the digital worldcreating competitive and effective tools. In short, that innovation does not only come from afar.