Dante Alighieri becomes an avatar that can be used by universities, schools or private users to facilitate e-learning, or - from a tourism perspective - as a virtual guide in museums. The digitized poet was created by tech company QuestIT: "We started by analyzing the grave mask of the supreme poet, faithfully recreating his likeness. We then digitally 'dressed' the avatar to make him exactly mirror the classical iconography associated with Dante," they explain at QuestIT. The “digital seer” has been equipped with a vertical "Large Language Model" (a language model capable of processing billions of parameters), enabling it to speak with Latinisms and popular expressions of the time, in a believable Dantean elocution. The avatar is able to understand the questions of individual interlocutors and respond accordingly, having been trained in dialogue through the Algho conversational platform. To date, only 3% of museums and theaters in Italy use avatars or virtual assistants. Dante could contribute to the change.
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