Arlindo Oliveira is a SingularityU Portugal expert in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).

Arlindo is the author of three books and hundreds of articles in the areas of algorithms, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computer architecture. He was a researcher at CERN, Electronics Research Labs of UC Berkeley, Cadence Labs, and INESC-ID.

Arlindo Oliveira obtained a PhD degree from UC Berkeley, and his BSc and MSc degrees in EECS from IST. He is a member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, a senior member of IEEE and a past president of IST, INESC-ID, and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

With many years of experience in this area, Arlindo Oliveira is the perfect person to provide the answer to your questions about AI and its potential and, most importantly, to analyze how AI can impact your business and your life!

Recent advances in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are revolutionizing our economy and our society.

AI-based systems are finding numerous applications in marketing, sales, healthcare, finances, education, transportation, logistics, design, and even in scientific research. In the near future, AI-based systems may replace a significant fraction of human workers in many jobs and functions.

Machine Learning, a technology that is at the core of recent AI developments, enables computers to learn from experience and opens the way to even more radical changes in the way we interact with machines.

Deep learning is enabling us to address new problems in computer vision and human interaction, with many applications in analytics and automation. Newly developed algorithms and architectures have greatly extended the reach of deep learning techniques and made this technology directly applicable to many businesses. Recent results obtained with transformer-based large language models, convolutional neural networks, deep reinforcement learning, and reverse diffusion have brought this topic to the center of public attention and will have, no doubt, many practical, social, and philosophical impacts in the near future.

In the future, AI research may even open the door to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), enabling us to create digital minds, systems as intelligent, powerful, and conscious as humans. These digital minds would exhibit intelligent behavior, either by direct emulation of brain processes or by synthetic, approach. If they come into existence, what will be the social, legal, and ethical implications?