Antonio Lieto

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Antonio Lieto
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Antonio Lieto at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany, 2024.
Born (1983-12-18) December 18, 1983 (age 41)
Citizenship Italy
Alma mater University of Salerno
Scientific career
Fields Artificial intelligence
Cognitive science
Institutions University of Turin, National Research Council of Italy, University of Salerno
Website www.antoniolieto.net

Antonio Lieto (born December 18, 1983) is an Italian cognitive scientist and computer scientist at the University of Salerno and a research associate at the Institute of High Performance Computing of the Italian National Research Council focusing on cognitive architectures and computational models of cognition, [1] [2] [3] commonsense reasoning and models of mental representation, [4] and persuasive technologies. [5] He teaches Artificial Intelligence and "Design and Evaluation of Cognitive Artificial Systems" [6] at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin. [7]

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Career and contributions

He obtained his PhD from the University of Salerno with a thesis in knowledge representation. [8] and was then a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin from 2012 to 2023. [9] He is notable for his work on cognitively-inspired computational models of categorization integrating both prototypes and exemplars based strategies through the combination of Peter Gärdenfors conceptual spaces with large scale Description Logics ontologies like Cyc. His model, called DUAL PECCS, has been used to extend the categorization capabilities of different cognitive architectures. [10] He is also notable for the proposal of the Minimal Cognitive Grid as a methodological tool to rank the explanatory power of biologically and cognitively inspired artificial systems, [11] [12] and for the invention, with Gian Luca Pozzato, of a cognitively-inspired probabilistic description logics known as TCL (Typicality-based Compositional Logic) used for automated human-like knowledge invention and generation via conceptual blending and combination. [13] . TCL is the reasoning engine of the system METCL (Metaphor Elaboration in Typicality-based Compositional Logics) developed for automatic metaphors generation and identification [14] [15] .

In the context of persuasive technologies he has shown, with Vernero, how arguments reducible to logical fallacies represent a class of widely adopted persuasive techniques in both web and mobile technologies. [16] A 2021 report by the Rand Corporation has confirmed this insight by showing that the use of logical fallacies proposed by Lieto and Vernero is one of the rhetorical strategies for automated persuasion used by the Russian agents to influence the online discourse and spread subversive information in Europe. [17]

Lieto has been visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, at the University of Haifa and at Lund University and has been associate researcher and scientific consultant of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). He has founded, in 2013, the international series of workshops AIC on "Artificial Intelligence and Cognition". [7] [18]

Recognition

In 2020, he was awarded the ACM Distinguished Speaker status from the Association for Computing Machinery. [19] In 2018, he was awarded the "Outstanding Research Award" from the BICA society (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture Society) for his contribution in the area of cognitively inspired artificial systems. [20] [21] He was the vice-president of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science. [22] He is deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence , [23] member of the scientific board of the journal Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier) [24] and member of Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics of the IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [25] Since January 2024 he is an elected member of the Scientific Board of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) [26]

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References

  1. ↑ "500 italiani e italiane che contano nell'Intelligenza Artificiale", 19 Marzo 2024, Repubblica.it
  2. ↑ Moretti, Vincenzo (2024-01-28). "Antonio Lieto e l'approccio olistico all'intelligenza artificiale". #lavorobenfatto (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  3. ↑ "Digitale Assistenten: Dein Freund und Lauscher". MIT Technology Review (in German). 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  4. ↑ Scientific Sense Podcast by Gill Eapen
  5. ↑ "ACM Distinguished Lecture - Cognitive Biases for the Design of Persuasive Technologies: Uses, Abuses and Ethical Concerns". speakers.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  6. ↑ Design and Evaluation of Cognitive Artificial Systems Course Syllabus - Department of Computer Science, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, University of Turin.
  7. 1 2 Curriculum Vitae (PDF) Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
  8. ↑ Loop - Frontiers Biography
  9. ↑ - University of Salerno
  10. ↑ Extending the Knowledge Level of General Cognitive Architectures with Conceptual Spaces, Stockholm, Conceptual Spaces workshop, August 2016
  11. ↑ ACM Computing Reviews Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds, Review by Lucas Bechberger, ACM Computing Reviews, July 19, 2021
  12. ↑ Lieto, Antonio (2021). Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds. London, UK: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. ISBN   9781138207929.
  13. ↑ Bartlett, Laura; Pirrone, Angelo; Javed, Noman and; Gobet, Fernand (2022). "Computational scientific discovery in psychology" (PDF). Perspectives on Psychological Science. 18 (1): 178–189. doi:10.1177/17456916221091833. PMC   9902966 . PMID   35943820. S2CID   251444259.
  14. ↑ Ecco l’intelligenza artificiale italiana che genera metafore come un essere umano - AI 4 Business, 29 May. 2025
  15. ↑ [ https://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/763661/puntini-sullai-ia-e-astrazione-metafore-ragionamento-e-pensiero-invisibile] Puntini sull'AI - IA e Astrazione. Metafore, ragionamento e pensiero invisibile - Radio Radicale, 6 July, 2025
  16. ↑ Lieto, Antonio; Vernero, Fabiana (2014). "Influencing the Others' Minds: An Experimental Evaluation of the Use and Efficacy of Fallacious-Reducible Arguments in Web and Mobile Technologies". PsychNology Journal. 12 (3): 87–105.
  17. ↑ Matthews, Miriam; Demus, Alyssa; Treyger, Elina; Posard, Marek N.; Reineger, Hilary; Paul, Christofer (March 2021). "Understanding and Defending Against Russia's Malign and Subversive Information Efforts in Europe" (PDF). Rand Research Report.
  18. ↑ AIC Workshop Series on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition
  19. ↑ ACM Distinguished Speaker Antonio Lieto - ACM Distinguished Speaker
  20. ↑ L'Outstanding Research Award per il ricercatore Antonio Lieto - Unitonews, 4 Sept. 2018
  21. ↑ ""Aiuto i robot a risolvere anche gli indovinelli" - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  22. ↑ "AISC Previous Governing Boards". Archived from the original on 2022-03-04. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  23. ↑ "Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence - Editorial Board". tandfonline.com. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  24. ↑ "Editorial board - Cognitive Systems Research". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  25. ↑ "Members - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  26. ↑ "Antonio Lieto". Aixia (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
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