Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people--including many who don't have all that much to divvy up. More than forty per cent of millennials and Gen Z-ers claim to have signed a prenup. Andrea Zevallos declared 2016 her "year of dating." She was twenty-seven, working at Universal Studios Hollywood, the theme park, and determined to find love. She calculated it would take three dates a week. By December, she was losing hope. "It was exhausting," she said. Then, while scrolling OkCupid, she noticed a "cute guy" with a "Hamilton" reference in his handle. His name was Alex Switzky, and like her he was a musical-theatre enthusiast and aspiring screenwriter. He was different from the other men she'd met. On their second date, he started planning a third. Zevallos "was used to L.A. guys cagey about any sort of calendar." One day, Switzky called her. Accustomed to texts, she assumed that he was about to break up with her. "The most millennial response," she recalled, laughing.

Robert Cherone, 45, was killed at Palermo's Pizza West Milwaukee facility after being crushed by a robotic machine, prompting an OSHA investigation.

Providing personalized, detailed feedback at scale in large undergraduate STEM courses remains a persistent challenge. We present an empirically evaluated practice exam system that integrates AI generated feedback with targeted textbook references, deployed in a large introductory biology course. Our system encourages metacognitive behavior by asking students to explain their answers and declare their confidence. It uses OpenAI's GPT-4o to generate personalized feedback based on this information, while directing them to relevant textbook sections. Through interaction logs from consenting participants across three midterms (541, 342, and 413 students respectively), totaling 28,313 question-student interactions across 146 learning objectives, along with 279 surveys and 23 interviews, we examined the system's impact on learning outcomes and engagement. Across all midterms, feedback types showed no statistically significant performance differences, though some trends suggested potential benefits. The most substantial impact came from the required confidence ratings and explanations, which students reported transferring to their actual exam strategies. About 40 percent of students engaged with textbook references when prompted by feedback -- far higher than traditional reading rates. Survey data revealed high satisfaction (mean rating 4.1 of 5), with 82.1 percent reporting increased confidence on practiced midterm topics, and 73.4 percent indicating they could recall and apply specific concepts. Our findings suggest that embedding structured reflection requirements may be more impactful than sophisticated feedback mechanisms.

This paper illustrates the architecture and training of Unipa-GPT, a chatbot relying on a Large Language Model, developed for assisting students in choosing a bachelor/master degree course at the University of Palermo. Unipa-GPT relies on gpt-3.5-turbo, it was presented in the context of the European Researchers' Night (SHARPER night). In our experiments we adopted both the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach and fine-tuning to develop the system. The whole architecture of Unipa-GPT is presented, both the RAG and the fine-tuned systems are compared, and a brief discussion on their performance is reported. Further comparison with other Large Language Models and the experimental results during the SHARPER night are illustrated.

Global geo-data and exploration company Fugro has opened its largest remote operations centre to date, a multi-million-dollar multi-user facility in Perth's central business district called the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex, or SpAARC. The opening on Tuesday, November 2, was attended by WA Deputy Premier Roger Cook and the head of the Australian Space Agency (ASA), Enrico Palermo. SpAARC makes available a world-leading commercial facility where users ranging from small sole operators in the space sector to government and defence agencies can demonstrate and test remote robotic capabilities to deploy into space and other remote environments. "The opening itself is a milestone," said Dawn McIntosh, Space Systems Director at Fugro Australia. "We're building out a capability so you can come in and we've got content you can build off of, or you can do your own pipeline and end-to-end solution. The breadth of the type of mission you can bring in isn't dictated by the facility itself."

Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2021) explains the crucial role that human cognition research plays in the design and realization of artificial intelligence systems, illustrating the steps necessary for the design of artificial models of cognition. It bridges the gap between the theoretical, experimental, and technological issues addressed in the context of AI of cognitive inspiration and computational cognitive science. The event is moderated by Antonio Chella (Prof. of Robotics at the University of Palermo) The event is free (but the registration is mandatory) and will be held on Gather Town (you will receive the link once registered). The book "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (with related editorial reviews) can be found at: Antonio Lieto is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, Italy, and a research associate at the ICAR-CNR in Palermo, Italy. He is the current Vice-President of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (2017–2022) and an ACM Distinguished Speaker on the topics of cognitively inspired AI and artificial models of cognition.

"Hey Siri, can you find me a murderer for hire?" Ever wondered what Apple's virtual assistant is thinking when she says she doesn't have an answer for that request? Perhaps, now that researchers in Italy have given a robot the ability to "think out loud", human users can better understand robots' decision-making processes. "There is a link between inner speech and subconsciousness [in humans], so we wanted to investigate this link in a robot," said the study's lead author, Arianna Pipitone from the University of Palermo. The researchers programmed a robot called Pepper, made by SoftBank Robotics, with the ability to vocalise its thought processes.

Illogic is a leader in the development of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision and Machine Learning and 3D Computer Graphics solutions. We are designers, engineers, artists, and programmers willing to work together to pursue a culture of learning through concrete experimentation, applying non-traditional approaches to imagine the impact of emerging technologies on the business world. Creating innovation - product, process, and business - by exploiting the multiple opportunities offered by digital: this is the basis of Illogic's success. We are currently looking for a profile for a permanent contract for the Palermo office. Please provide portfolio and demo reel.

Illogic is a leader in the development of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision and Machine Learning and 3D Computer Graphics solutions. We are designers, engineers, artists, and programmers willing to work together to pursue a culture of learning through concrete experimentation, applying non-traditional approaches to imagine the impact of emerging technologies on the business world. Creating innovation - product, process, and business - by exploiting the multiple opportunities offered by digital: this is the basis of Illogic's success.

This article is part of CMO.com's February series about mobile. There's no arguing that smartphones are firmly entrenched in our everyday lives. In fact, recent Adobe research found that consumers spend the same amount of time sleeping as they do consuming content on their smartphone devices. And while the phone provides a means of connecting with consumers wherever they are, customers have always been one step ahead of brands. But as the adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates, brands may be able to catch up, experts say.