Over 200 people attended Sa Manifattura in Viale Regina Margherita in Cagliari for the international conference organized by "La Sardegna verso l'Unesco", entitled "Nuragic civilization and Artificial Intelligence: from stones to neural networks" and which saw the participation of experts from all over the world. Divided into two time and thematic windows, which captured the attention of participants until the evening, the initiative linked the project of valorization of the Nuragic civilization for Unesco purposes to new technologies , opening an interdisciplinary discussion that touched on numerous aspects of AI, also applied to the Nuragic civilization.

Opening the proceedings, after the institutional greetings, were Ivan Blecic and Massimo Deriu with the EIA project, Ecosystem for Innovation in Protohistoric Archaeology . “EIA” in its medium-long term vision aims at designing an international center for the enhancement of Nuragic monuments, while the closest objective will be to create a network composed of archaeological sites but also of all the subjects that manage them and put them into a system to offer management, enhancement and fruition tools.

Introduced and moderated by journalist and Rai presenter Barbara Carfagna, the first guests X-rayed the new frontiers related to artificial intelligence . Alberto Mattiello, business futurist and expert in technological innovation, allowed participants to better understand the infinite opportunities related to AI for those who deal with spreading culture and the possibility that today comes from new technologies to know worlds that do not exist by creating a storytelling around them. Gaming applied to culture was instead the topic discussed by David Gallo, CEO & Managing Director of ONE-O-ONE Games and 101%. And again: Google Cloud's AI technologies applied to different sectors with Salvatore Piazza, executive account manager of Google Cloud for the Local Public Sector market.

The current state and new perspectives related to culture in the afternoon interventions . The work started with an initial introduction of the scenario entrusted to Stefano Quintarelli, who allowed participants to understand how AI is actually everywhere, for example in any search on the internet (where it operates remotely on our smartphone, precisely showing the results it deems most suitable for us) and how the prospect of creating an artificial intelligence similar to human intelligence is not realistic today.

Space for studies in archaeology and nuraghe in the following speeches . Among the many internationally renowned guests, in the afternoon session dedicated to the application of AI to the Nuragic civilization, Maurizio Forte and Mark Altaweel, respectively Professor of Classical Studies, History of Art and Visual Arts at Duke University (Italian Academy Fellow, Fall 2024) and Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Data Science at University College London. Forte and Altaweel allowed participants to understand how artificial intelligence revolutionizes the perception of the past and what else can be expected from an ongoing revolution that already closely affects cultural heritage and, with respect to Sardinia, the Nuragic heritage.

Lucio Pascarelli, a former UN manager with over 40 years of experience in the ICT sector and an AI expert, addressed the issue of the importance and value of data (chatbots and other AI) while Franco Niccolucci, Scientific Director of Vast Lab – PIN University of Florence, opened a window on “digital twins” and the Nuragic civilization, touching on the themes of archaeology, history and popular traditions.

Closing the event was Francesco Pigliaru, economist at the University of Cagliari and CREnOS, according to whom AI today is a formidable ally in research and understanding the Nuragic civilization and can help to better communicate what we already know . At the same time, however, the challenge we face is to be able to educate an entire population (Europe, Italy and Sardinia are struggling to use these technologies), from businesses to students in schools, to become experts in the use of AI.

(Online Union)

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