FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research), the Extended Partnership financed by NRRP funds that brings together 25 institutional and private partners led by the CNR, including the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, is now underway. The kick-off meeting was held on March 9-10 in Pisa, in the CNR Research Area.
The first meeting served to outline the numerous areas of the project, the innovative study methods and the objectives of the AI of the future. The speakers were artificial intelligence experts who are part of the FAIR project, including Prof. Nicola Gatti (DEIB), and some representatives of the companies involved in the partnership. The discussion was moderated by journalist Alessio Jacona, curator of ANSA's IA Observatory.
The actual kick-off meeting took place the following day with the presentation of the scientific road map of the project.
The FAIR project starts from modern artificial intelligence, from its different theoretical, modeling and engineering aspects, but is turned towards the future, with the ambition to contribute to addressing research questions, methodologies, models, technologies, without neglecting ethical and legal rules, and sustainability issues in the broadest sense.
CNR is the proponent of the project, in collaboration with the CINI AIIS (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems) National Laboratory. FAIR is a non-profit foundation and its President is Giuseppe De Pietro, director of the CNR Institute for High Performance Computing and Networks (CNR-ICAR).
The Partnership, which for the first time brings together the national scientific network of AI experts also involving a first nucleus of companies in the sector, is made up of four research institutions (in addition to CNR, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, INFN, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), fourteen universities (Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Sapienza Università di Roma, Scuola Normale Superiore, SISSA, Università Bocconi, Università Campus Biomedico di Roma, Università di Bologna, Università di Pisa, Università di Trento, Università di Bari, Università della Calabria, Università di Catania, Università di Napoli “Federico II”) and seven companies (Bracco, Deloitte, Expert.ai, Intesa Sanpaolo, Leonardo, Lutech, STMicroelectronics).