{"id":16955,"date":"2024-11-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:25:38","slug":"research-and-ongoing-projects-of-salesian-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2024\/11\/26\/research-and-ongoing-projects-of-salesian-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and Ongoing Projects of &#8220;Salesian AI&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>(ANS \u2013 Rome)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Scholars at the Don Bosco Study Centre (CSDB) at the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome actively participate in the discussion, research&nbsp;and&nbsp;development of various Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects,&nbsp;with the aim of accompanying and supporting&nbsp;researchers and students by offering relevant scientific resources in the fields of education, history&nbsp;and&nbsp;Salesian spirituality in the digital age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CSDB is involved in the following projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the International Salesian Commission on Artificial Intelligence (ISCAI);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Research Project on Ethical Challenges and Opportunities for the Integration of AI in Salesian Higher Education Institutions (IUS) in Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and the Artificial Intelligence Developers Forum (BAIF).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Don Bosco Study Centre, in turn, promotes a pragmatic community committed to supporting the development of AI products that respond to the mission of the Salesian Family&nbsp;in today&#8217;s world. For example, it has already developed two&nbsp;interesting&nbsp;products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is &#8220;<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/g\/g-9wRyga7yM-salesian-don-bosco-research\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salesian &amp; Don Bosco Research<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; a personalized model of GPT (<em>Generative Pre-trained Transformer&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 Generative Artificial Intelligence based on deep learning), developed by Fr Michal Vojt\u00e1\u0161, SDB. This program was designed to explore the rich heritage, educational methods, and spirituality of the Salesian tradition inspired by St Francis de Sales&nbsp;and made&nbsp;real in the Salesian Family founded by St John Bosco. Designed to offer insights into Salesian history, pedagogy&nbsp;and&nbsp;youth ministry, it makes use of fundamental texts of the Salesian tradition, covering the following areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Salesian sources: including writings by and about Don Bosco, for an in-depth understanding of his life, his mission, and the expansion of the Salesian Family;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>History of the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0the Preventive System in Salesian education and pedagogy, in developments over the centuries;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salesian Spirituality, inspired by St Francis de Sales and St John Bosco;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>contemporary Salesian Youth Ministry, inspired by the latest edition of the Salesian Youth Ministry Framework document;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salesian educative and pastoral planning in different cultural and linguistic contexts;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A valuable tool for educators, scholars, and members of the Salesian Family, this GPT offers contextualized indications, helping users better understand values, teaching methods, and historical development through primary sources and contemporary analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second product is&nbsp;<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulgate.ai\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vulgate<\/a><\/strong>: a Digital Library Platform powered by Artificial Intelligence. It is an innovative library platform developed by the &#8220;Longbeard&#8221; team of Catholic AI developers and customized for the needs of Salesian Studies. This library leverages several AI technologies, including&nbsp;<em>Generative AI<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>computer vision<\/em>y&nbsp;<em>Natural Language Processing<\/em>, to offer the following features to the Salesian library:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neural search: Vulgate uses AI-based neural search, which semantically understands the request and provides more relevant results based on intent and context;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interlingual searches: it is possible to search in one language and obtain materials in other languages, significantly expanding the results from a multilingual library;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keyword search: Vulgate also offers a classic keyword search which retrieves results based on the presence of terms in the text of documents;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0Automatic summaries of texts: Through generative AI, Vulgate allows users to\u00a0easily\u00a0summarize key passages or chapters of the library&#8217;s contents;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Machine translation: Vulgate uses powerful AI translation technology to make content written in languages unknown to them accessible to users;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Personal library: each user can create a personal library where they can save their favorite texts or search results, as well as comment, highlight, and share content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With these tools, the Don Bosco Study Centre and the entire Pontifical Salesian University demonstrate that they adhere to their vocation for scientific research and know how to move in harmony with the Church, the Congregation, and current times.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ANS \u2013 Rome)&nbsp;\u2013 Scholars at the Don Bosco Study Centre (CSDB) at the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome actively participate in the discussion, research&nbsp;and&nbsp;development of various Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects,&nbsp;with the aim of accompanying and supporting&nbsp;researchers and students by offering relevant scientific resources in the fields of education, history&nbsp;and&nbsp;Salesian spirituality in the digital age. The CSDB is involved in the following projects: The Don &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2024\/11\/26\/research-and-ongoing-projects-of-salesian-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research and Ongoing Projects of &#8220;Salesian AI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":17090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[516714022,3030561],"tags":[14067],"class_list":["post-16955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salesian-world-news","category-social-communications","tag-ai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/don-bosco-ai-feature-1.jpg?fit=1600%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-4pt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16959,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions\/16959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}