Luís Caires

Lisbon BIG ERA Chair Blockchain Winter School ( lnkd.in/d2A8qa7D ) second day! Christof Torres keynoting about the internals smart contracts and their key role in digital ledger technology applications.

This event is sponsored by the BIG ERA Chair project
bigerachair.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Lisbon Blockchain Winter School ( lxbws.tecnico.ulisboa.pt ) up and running! Miguel Pardal keynoted about a large scale DLT application being deployed in Portugal to track agro products ( in particular cherries 🍒)!

​Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa abandona rede social X - Renascença Instituição, que tem uma conta com mais de 4.500 seguidores, explica que não se identifica com os valores propagados no antigo Twitter.

First Portuguese University to officially quit from X.

"Yann LeCun -
How could machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals? Current (...) Large Language Models fall short. "
( mlfoundations.org/talk/lecun/)
Frustrated by the limitations of current Gen AI technology, serious AI researchers get back to the drawing board.
Oh here we go again ...

Centenary of unforgettable Mario Soares (b. 7.12.1924), key founder of the Portuguese Democracy fighter for Freedom before and after the Carnation Revolution 🌹🌹

intel study complains that PC users spend more time to complete many common tasks using AI than with "classical tools", and conclude that more "AI education" is needed :) !!

sfiscience

really interesting 6 episode podcast by Melanie Mitchell on the Nature of Intelligence