Yesterday, 27 January, the INESC-ID Board of Directors met at Técnico Oeiras Campus for a Strategic Meeting. The first item on the agenda was a strategic brainstorming session. Participants were divided into groups to discuss various key questions for the…
“We must stop and see, as a society, what we want from artificial intelligence.” These were the words from Inês Lynce that set the tone for a recent episode of the ECO podcast “À Prova de Futuro”. Amid the current…
Not prohibiting students matters — banning adults rarely works. That was one of the key ideas shared by Inês Lynce on the use of artificial intelligence and large language models in higher education, in the latest episode of Xpandit’s AI Talks,…
Environmental requirements and regulations have been increasing in an effort to address the climate crisis, one of society’s main concerns in recent years. These goals, however urgent, can be challenging to meet. In a partnership with INESC-ID, Nova SBE and…
When HeartGenetics was created, most people didn’t know they needed genetic screening in order to manage their health in a personal way. “We had a product that was good for people, even if they didn’t know it yet. It’s what Apple did — we didn’t know we needed an iPhone until we had one”, compares Ana…
The source of Large Language Models’ (LLM) knowledge is often unclear. Besides the fact that most commercial AI vendors do not disclose their full training datasets, current AI models are usually reluctant to reveal memorised content. Research by INESC-ID and…
Closing the year, the INESC-ID Awards 2025 brought together researchers, students and staff to recognise three outstanding contributions to the institute’s scientific life and impact. Hosted by the President of the Scientific Council, Rodrigo Rodrigues, the packed hybrid ceremony awarded…
Earlier this month, our PhD students had their last meetup of 2025. After working hours, around twenty students gathered to room 9 of Alves Redol (INESC-ID headquarters), for a quiz game. Divided into four teams and fuelled by snacks, the…
As is tradition, the three INESC Lisbon institutes, INESC-ID, INESC-MN and INOV, had their Christmas gathering on December 17 to mark the jolliest time of the year. Under a smiley gingerbread cookie projected on the screen, the attendees gathered around…
From unlocking our phones with facial recognition to self-driving cars, AI-based computer vision is increasingly part of the technologies we use. Yet there is still much to learn from how we see the world. To address this gap, researchers from…