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In a significant meeting between academics and Mapuche leaders, the “Conversatorio sobre Derecho Indígena, Canadá y Chile” was held in Osorno, Chile, on 25 September. This event, organised by the Universidad de Los Lagos, provided an invaluable platform to discuss crucial issues related to indigenous rights and public policies affecting indigenous peoples in both countries.

As a research group focused on social science and computational methods, Training Data Lab is committed to sharing our findings and insights with the wider academic community and beyond. Over the past year, we have harnessed the power of AI to generate content for Twitter, using GPT-3.5 to create engaging posts that resonated with our audience.

From 17 to 20 July 2024, our research group, Training Data Lab, had the honour of participating in the XII Latin American Congress of Political Science, entitled “América Latina como actor en la configuración geopolítica global,” held in Lisbon, Portugal. Our research associates presented three papers reflecting our political science and methodology research.

At Training Data Lab, we focus on developing innovative solutions that combine the power of deep learning and energy efficiency. We recently decided to use Raspberry Pi 5 to deploy deep learning and language models such as LLaMA and Mistral for our research projects. This text will explain how this choice will allow us to reduce costs and carbon footprint associated with cloud computing.

On 27-28 November 2023, researchers from the Training Data Lab participated in the conference “Four decades of the third democratisation wave in Latin America” at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. During this event, our researchers presented three papers addressing different aspects related to democratisation and democratic destabilisation in the region.