Tag: AI

Facebook’s long march to China

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Facebook has been bending over every which way to somehow get back into China after the country’s so-called Great Firewall was significantly jacked up in July 2009, blocking western...

AI ethics hits political nerve

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The regulation of artificial intelligence ethics is now a “live political issue”, with several heavyweight players calling for urgent action on the matter. With $30 million in funding in...

AI ethics gets complicated

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Conversations around ethics may have always been complex but it’s about to get a lot more complicated when artificial intelligence (AI) gets thrown into the mix. The nation’s chief...

Finkel floats an ethical AI plan

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Australia chief scientist Alan Finkel has proposed an agreed set of ethical standards for artificial intelligence be imposed on companies to protect consumers and the broader economy from nefarious...

Workforce skills still a problem

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal budget did not provide a clear direction or funding path for future of work issues in preparing the Australian workforce for digital disruption, according to shadow minister...

Gov’t ponders AI’s governing ethics

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The growing influence of AI powered systems on our daily lives has got governments keen to be on top of the AI wave rather than paddling furiously to catch...

Queensland’s AI skills drought

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A skills shortage in the rapidly emerging area of artificial intelligence (AI) in Queensland is putting a drag on the state’s innovation drive, according to global job site Indeed....

Law is falling far behind the tech

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
Legislation addressing the deployment of emerging technologies in Australia is “so far behind we don’t even know how far behind we are” according to Law Council president Fiona McLeod....

ACCC’s crack new data unit

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The ACCC has established a new data analytics unit to help crack down on the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in price-fixing. In a speech delivered to...