Anatomy of an Artificial Mind - Talk by Enrico Zimuel
Foundations and promises of artificial intelligence, at FLA Festival 2026.
Date
06 November 2026 19:00 - 06 November 2026 20:00
As part of FLA - Festival di Libri e Altrecose 2026, in the section curated by Metro Olografix, Enrico Zimuel presents his book Anatomia di una mente artificiale (“Anatomy of an Artificial Mind”).
What it’s about
The essential foundations for understanding artificial intelligence, centred on Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT: what they can do, where they fall short, and what we still don’t know about how they work. The talk covers the contradictions in benchmarks, which show impressive abilities but also weaknesses on long-horizon tasks, and the underlying question: do these models understand, or do they imitate? It closes with ethics and regulation, from the EU AI Act to Italy’s AI law (Law no. 132 of 23 September 2025).
About Enrico Zimuel
He teaches Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the University of Turin and Agentic AI and RAG architectures at Roma Tre University. He did research at the University of Amsterdam and has worked with Silicon Valley companies for over 15 years, including Elastic in San Francisco as Tech Lead and Principal Software Engineer. A TEDx speaker with more than 140 talks, he is the author of Strumenti di Informatica (Tecniche Nuove, 2025).
Free admission while seats last. The talk is in Italian.