CENTAI is born, the laboratory for advanced research in the field of Artificial Intelligence. A joint-stock company 49% owned by Intesa Sanpaolo and 51% controlled by the scientific team, led by a reference Scientific Committee of high international profile. The Board will be composed of Marco Ciurcina (chairman), Paolo Benanti, Francesco Bonchi, Filippo Raiteri and, representing Intesa Sanpaolo, Paolo Maria Vittorio Grandi (chief governance office), Stefano Barrese (head of the Banca dei Territori division) and Massimo Proverbio ( chief IT digital innovation officer).
It is a new reality, explains the bank, equipped with the most advanced AI tools and big data, "capable of exploring the structural properties of all those aspects of society that bind together the many variables of this planet".
“Intesa Sanpaolo wants to open new paths in the field of Artificial Intelligence – he declared Charles Messina, Managing Director and CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo -. The digital and technological transformation of the Group will have Turin as its capital and our skyscraper is thus confirmed as the beating heart of innovation. The new CENTAI laboratory, making use of the study and contribution of scientists, will be able to attract new talents”.
“Knowledge today is based on data and on knowing how to process them in an intelligent, rapid and efficient way. It is a real revolution, already in full swing,” he said Mario Rasetti, Chair of the Scientific Committee of CENTAI, adding that "CENTAI aims to become the proactive support of this intelligence, with AI: with basic research on the foundations of AI and the identification of the determinants of causal processes, for a deeper understanding of the structural role of 'behaviour'; using tools such as the theory of natural languages, cognitive sciences, neurosciences; looking beyond machine learning”.
