FROM TRANSFORMERS TO AGENTS: A PRACTICAL JOURNEY THROUGH GENERATIVE AI
This seminar traces the arc of Generative AI from transformer foundations to autonomous agents, following two parallel tracks that increasingly converge. On the language side, the path runs from large language models through prompting and context-engineering techniques to the emerging paradigm of agentic programming, where AI systems plan, execute, and verify code autonomously. On the vision side, the same transformer revolution has driven diffusion models for image and video generation and, more recently, world models that learn to simulate visual environments. These trajectories meet in today's multimodal agents, systems that reason across text, images, and code. Drawing on recent adoption data, critical case studies, and practical examples, the talk offers a coherent map of the generative AI landscape and its practical implications.
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- Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2
- Pisa, Toscana
- Italy
- Room Number: Aula Pacinotti
- Starts 09 March 2026 11:00 PM UTC
- Ends 25 March 2026 11:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Tiberio of University of Pisa
Tiberio Uricchio is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, where he teaches computer vision and deep learning, AI applications and databases.
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He received his MSc (cum laude) and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Florence in 2012 and 2016, respectively; his doctoral thesis was awarded the best thesis in the technology class by the same university. He also holds an MBA in Business Innovation from MIB Trieste School of Management and co-founded the AI-based video-streaming startup Small Pixels, an academic spin-off of the University of Florence, where he served as CEO.
His research spans computer vision, multimedia, machine learning, and generative AI, with recent work on composed image retrieval, video restoration, and large language models in digital humanities.
He has authored over 50 publications and delivered tutorials at ACM Multimedia and CVPR. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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