AI : the opportunity of a new “Renaissance” era.
In the history of humankind, one of the most fascinating periods is the “Rinascimento”(Renaissance), an unprecedented chapter of the human consciousness development and where were produced some of the most famous and attractive art pieces such as The Mona Lisa, The David of Michelangelo, The last Judgement and The School of Athens.

Everything started between the 14th and the 15th Century in Florence, where the rich and powerful Medici Family was dominating the Republic of Florence and, right under the patronage of this family, grew a variety of artist and brilliant minds that had the opportunity to live following their passions, generally without the need to do a traditional job to survive. They didn’t spend their morning and afternoon cultivating fields or selling precious fabricks in the market, but they spent their lives between ateliers and magnificent palaces, painting, studying, singing and so on. It’s in this contest those giants such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and many others created their masterpieces: the “Mecenate” (patron) of the moment was taking care of their needs, providing them food, tools and a warm bed so they could concentrate on creating something unique and eternal.
It’s difficult to find another period in which so much beauty was produced and even today, even though the advancement of the technology, we can’t get anywhere near to what has been done in that wonderful era.
In a near future this could change: thanks to the AI we have the opportunity to face a new era of great charm where people could concentrate on their passion as sports and arts, people will reach new heights of human knowledge that will lead to something that has never been seen in the past and in the following lines I’ll explain why this could happen.
AI : a precious tool for human freedom.

In the course of history, the man used his intellect to develop tools that made his life easier, from the wheel and the plough to the modern pc and smartphone: these items have replaced the way in which we do stuff, making our life more comfortable.
Slowly, the technology is replacing our jobs: during the industrial revolutions occurred in the past centuries, machines replaced most of the hard physical labours but in exchange technical and desk jobs started popping around where it was more important the use of the intellect than the strength.
Now, we are at the dawn of a new industrial revolution where machines are not just replacing our physical work, but they are replacing the human intellect as well. For this reason, people are already losing their jobs! Replaced by algorithms and PCs, that are cheaper and more efficient than human workers and that work 24h a day, 7 days a week without complain; with the arrival of the Artificial Intelligence, we are running towards the hypothesis of Singularity: if in the industrial revolution machines needed the human intervention, in the next industrial revolution machine won’t need the human intervention anymore, they’ll do everything by themselves.
In this scenario, that in my opinion could come true in 20/30 years, people won’t work anymore, or at least people won’t work anymore in the way we know it: machines will take care of our needs, providing us food, tools and a warm bed, they will be our “Mecenate” and all of us could be concentrated just on our passions. The artificial intelligence will “free” us from work.
The Dawn of a new “Rinascimento” era.

As free men we will have the opportunity to truly choose what to do of our lives, to spend more times with our families and to follow and dedicate our efforts on what we like. We could be painter, we could be singer, we could be whatever we want, we will have all the time inAs free men we will have the opportunity to truly choose what to do of our lives, to spend more times with our families and to follow and dedicate our efforts on what we like. We could be painters, we could be singers, we could be whatever we want, we will have all the time in the world to develop our skills and be the masters of those subjects.
This will be a new “Rinascimento”, but this time it will be much bigger. This time a lot more people will have the opportunity to spend their lives in this way, this time new powerful tools, provided by the technology, will help us boost the expression of our inner self and our point of view. We have an amazing time ahead of us. the world to develop our skills and be the masters of those subjects.
Published By Marcello Pichini
Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com.
