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Technology is pervasive in our daily experience, but we must never forget that it is a tool at our service. We are surrounded by data of all kinds and nature and we ourselves, more or less consciously, are data generators. These data, however, are useful if, and only if, they become information that we are able to use to understand the reality in which we live, to guide our choices and to reduce the level of uncertainty of the complex system of which we are part. Anything that is not measurable cannot be managed or improved. Progress depends on the quality of the data and information we are able to extract and manage.
Technology makes it possible to record, store, analyze increasing quantities of data, therefore new problems arise in terms of governance, quality, reliability, certification, data protection. The boundaries between social and private are more blurred, data can make us more free and aware, or more vulnerable and orientable. In step with technology, it is necessary to develop
the ability to seek, integrate, elaborate, imagine, understand. And together with all this, ethical awareness and social responsibility are needed. In this context, great attention is paid to Artificial Intelligence and how it can be applied in different fields and how its applications are changing the world. Machine Learning in recent years has found wide fields of application, for example in the field of health.
In this course we will address these issues with an approach where the questions we ask ourselves will be more important than the answers we find, together or individually.
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