About Women, Men, and Robots
Maurizio LenzeriniDipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale
Tiziana Catarci
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale «A.Ruberti»
1997: IBM’s Deep Blue beats Kasparov
Note: courtesy of Moshe Vardi from his Sapienza talk, December 19, 2016 https://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~dottoratoii/news/vardi-seminar-december2016.php
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2011: IBM Watson defeats two Jeopardy! Champions
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2016: AlphaGo beats Go champion Lee Sedol
Thanks to machine learning techniques AlphaGo may develop«intuitions» for Go playing.
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Human Reasoning• Machine learning vs cognitive computing• Creativity• “Scientists are no closer to creating conscious
machines now than they were a decade ago” (Oxford
University’s head of computer science, Professor Michael Wooldridge)
Note: picture courtesy of Sonia Bergamaschi from her Ferrari talk, October 4, 2017
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Internet of Things & Industry 4.0
Note: courtesy of Sonia Bergamaschi from her Ferrari talk, October 4, 2017
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The Automation of Driving
Automation of the whole supply chain is expected: cargo ships, ports, trucking, warehouses, delivery, …
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Future of Work
• McKinsey: 45% of current jobs could be replaced using technology that already exists;
• Gartner: one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025;
• But (digital) technology will create new jobs
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Routine vs. Nonroutine, Intellectual vs. Manual
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Jobs and Education
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Gender Differences
Ambrosetti Report data
Inapp (Istituto Nazionale analisi Politiche Pubbliche) data:Women with a master degree in STEM have44% more employmentopportunities wrt high school graduate womenMen 28%
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But…
In Italy - MIUR data 2016: 36,5% womengraduate in STEM78,5% in humanitiesSapienza femalestudents in Computer Eng.: 13,8% 16,3% femalestudents in tech high schools
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Grow-up Young Female Scientists• Between five and six years girls start having the
prejudice that males are more intelligent than female http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6323/389
• 15 years no more interest in STEMhttps://www.microsoft.com/empowering-
countries/en-us/gender-equality/nuvola-rosa/ • In summer we learn STEM (PdCM, Equal Opportunities
Dept.)– 1067 applications– 2.060.052,49 €– 209 awarded schools– 6000 children (60% girls)– 400 partners (universities, companies, no-profit, research
institutes)
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Conclusions
• “Gender equality is an existing and unrealized commitment” (Arzu Ozyol, UN Second Vice President)
• «Tech is too important to be left to men!» (Neelie Kroes, EC Vice President)
• “ICT is no longer for the geeky few – it is cool, and it is the future! Only 9% of app developers are women? Come on! Give coding a try, see how fun it can be!" (Neelie Kroes, EC Vice President)
• Women have a special ability to solve problems and this is the IT core
• ICT has a transformative power and could act as catalysts for women empowerment
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