(Adnkronos) - “Nel campo della statistica l’intelligenza artificiale ci può aiutare a trovare velocemente, consultando un numero infinito di documenti e di archivi, ciò che stiamo cercando”. Così Francesco Maria Chelli, presidente Istat, in occasione della decima edizione di StatisticAll, il Festival della Statistica e della Demografia. Una quattro giorni intensa e ricca di appuntamenti sul tema “Statistiche senza frontiere. Fiducia, etica, sistema: il futuro dei dati in Europa”, in svolgimento a Treviso.
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00:00First of all, if I have to look for a publication, or I have to do a textual research, for example to look for what has been written on the relative judicial statistics, I don't know, on violence against minors.
00:24So, it is clear that artificial intelligence has such a great capacity for analysis, calculation, research, and it helps a lot, as we already use it in many fields, we use it on many products, on many browsers, etc., for our research.
00:41So, in the field of statistics, it can help us to find, quickly, by consulting an infinite number of documents and archives, it can help us to find what we are looking for.
00:54If this is valid in the most qualitative aspects, for example in data, if I am trying to know, for example, how much is the average income of a family in the last 10 years, divided by the age of the head of the family,
01:11artificial intelligence helps me to find, let's say, if it is inserted in the system, it helps me to find quickly, without having to go and look for an archive in seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths, it gives me directly the information I need.
01:26And this is one way, but then we also imagine in the processes, we analyze millions and millions of data, we are in the big data, which we need to produce our statistics.
01:38In these processes, artificial intelligence replaces or accelerates the computing times exponentially, so it is clear that for us it is a great opportunity.
01:51At the same time, it is a challenge, because you can hear it everywhere, and it is one of the keywords of this festival, the ethics.
02:03Why? Because there are machines that produce data for other machines, which in turn produce data for other machines, but all this must have an ethical purpose, that is, all this must be at the service of the person, of the man.
02:17It is the man who must be at the center of all this service, it is clear, it is the man who makes the algorithms, and then in the algorithms of artificial intelligence it is necessary, indeed indispensable, that the ethical component is not underestimated.
02:32These methods cannot be used, even if minimally, they must be in favor of the man, they cannot harm anyone, many times we hear about algorithms, many times with a negative accent, we have all heard it.
02:51We must find a way to govern this process, it is not easy, but ethics are very important.