A look back at Synapse, Italy’s first AI symposium

Last month, leading voices in the global AI research community gathered in Milan, Italy, to discuss advances in the field — and to weigh in on some of the most pressing questions facing humanity in the age of machine learning. Synapse, the symposium on artificial intelligence hosted by Bending Spoons, was the first event of its kind to take place in Italy and drew over 150 of the brightest computer science students from around the world. At the cutting edge of AI research The invited speakers represented the vanguard of AI research — hailing from some of the world’s most prestigious entities a