Tag: AI

Thodey reveals APS interim report

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Automation and artificial intelligence present “compelling opportunities” for the Australian public sector to deliver better services to the public, but internal skills gaps need to be addressed urgently, the...

Executive Order: Trump on AI

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I totally get that Donald Trump is a doofus and that every single thing he ever says or does is either stupid or evil, and undoubtedly wrong. So how...

War of words on the AI front

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As if anyone needed reminding that a federal election looms, a war of words has broken out between the offices of Industry Minister Karen Andrews and shadow human services...

Labor confronts AI underspending

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Labor’s National Conference has formally adopted into its platform a significantly boosted policy profile for artificial intelligence, committing a future Shorten government to the development of new AI capability...

Putting AI on the policy agenda

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Artificial Intelligence ethical and legal frameworks, together with the struggle for local industry growth, were all key talking points at the AI Policy Strategy Session (PDF) held as part of...

We must move rapidly on AI

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Australian organisations need to move more rapidly into using artificial intelligence applications to automate and augment manual processes, as well as skilling up an AI workforce as the technology...

Labor pledges $3m for AI centre

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The federal opposition has pledged $3 million for the creation of a new Artificial Intelligence not-for-profit research centre that would focus on issues of ethics and the future of...

Toby Walsh on the impact AI

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Emerging technologies have the potential to greatly impact basic human rights and governments must step up to regulate their use, Australian artificial intelligence luminary expert Toby Walsh said. It...

Facebook’s long march to China

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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...