Our world is, today, witnessing the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution based on advanced technology of information, communication, and particularly Artificial Intelligence: machine or computer simulating functions that are associated with human features, such as vision, movement, hearing, speech, learning and problem-solving skills. In fact, this field arose in the 40’s and 50’s, and more recently knew a dramatic development in parallel with the development of hardware technology, as well as the starting spread of deep learning and neural networks in 2012. The applications of Artificial Intelligence have then diversified in all the scientific and technological fields, and even in the human, social and behavioural ones. It has therefore become paramount for researchers worldwide to catch up with contemporary technology and advanced development in different, economic and social, areas of life, and keep pace with the Information Age.
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