SubjectTechnology, innovation and knowledge
![Audience at the 2010 Sónar festival. © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_tendencies.jpg?itok=82U68War)
Festivals have become the ultimate popular spectacle of our times. They have built themselves from scratch in just three decades. In Barcelona, we have gone from a tentative and...
![Inside the Documenta bookshop on Carrer de Pau Claris in Barcelona.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_debat.jpg?itok=cb8LYWd-)
In recent years, more bookshops have opened than have closed in Barcelona. Ona, Finestres, Byron, Fahrenheit 451, Restory, Nocturama, La Insòlita, ECC Cómics… are just some...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_jarodriguezaguilar.jpg?itok=-wol9NMA)
AI has the potential to help manage complex processes, such as mobility, in city life. Simulators and servers that match people offering their cars with those who need to get...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_marpablo.jpg?itok=j5y5CmRH)
The polarisation and segregation fuelled by algorithms may end up shaping the city. AI feeds off itself and, as if it were an infinite mirror, it insists on showing us what it...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_nuriaoliver.jpg?itok=WIyjcswv)
When artificial intelligence is used in scenarios that impact millions of people, governance challenges and ethical dilemmas arise. How can we be sure that algorithmic decisions...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_paugarcia.jpg?itok=EokpPDi4)
Artificial intelligence technologies are an expression of who we are. When everything is possible, what do we decide to do? This is a perfect technology for both creation and...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_ramonlopez.jpg?itok=HwG_ri6c)
The artificial intelligences developed to date are specific to very concrete tasks. However, they do not have...
![Illustration © Romualdo Faura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_dossier_jldevicente.jpg?itok=ytmJbfm9)
Creative skills can currently be reproduced using deep learning and neural networks, but their true potential...
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