Introduzione all'Intelligenza Artificiale

TL;DR

This paper provides an accessible overview of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on core algorithmic techniques, and discusses ongoing debates about its benefits, risks, and future implications.

Contribution

It offers a clear, informal introduction to AI's main methods and presents the current ethical and safety debates in the field.

Findings

Highlights symbolic and subsymbolic techniques in AI

Discusses ethical considerations and potential dangers of AI

Provides personal insights on AI's future challenges

Abstract

The paper presents an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an accessible and informal but precise form. The paper focuses on the algorithmic aspects of the discipline, presenting the main techniques used in AI systems groped in symbolic and subsymbolic. The last part of the paper is devoted to the discussion ongoing among experts in the field and the public at large about on the advantages and disadvantages of AI and in particular on the possible dangers. The personal opinion of the author on this subject concludes the paper. -- -- L'articolo presenta un'introduzione all'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) in forma divulgativa e informale ma precisa. L'articolo affronta prevalentemente gli aspetti informatici della disciplina, presentando le principali tecniche usate nei sistemi di IA divise in simboliche e subsimboliche. L'ultima parte dell'articolo presenta il dibattito in corso tra gli esperi e il pubblico su vantaggi e svantaggi dell'IA e in particolare sui possibili pericoli. L'articolo termina con l'opinione dell'autore al riguardo.