Tag: AI

SAPHI brings AI safety focus to heavy industry

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Many innovations in the mining and construction sectors are either aimed at improving safety or boosting efficiency.  For New South Wales-based tech company SAPHI, both are possible.  Through its...

Meta dismisses AI scraping concerns as semantics

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Meta has defended its use of Australian users’ social media posts to train artificial intelligence without express consent, arguing that only publicly available data from its platforms is fed...

NSW teachers to get time-saving GenAI tool

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NSW teachers will gain statewide access to a purpose-built generative artificial intelligence app after the tool was found to free up as much as an hour per week during...

Oli, the early warning system for childbirth complications

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Around the world today, mothers are being monitored for life-threatening conditions when they are giving birth with the same technology that was being used to monitor their grandmothers in...

Govt AI use to go under the microscope

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Parliament’s powerful audit committee will run the ruler over public sector AI use after it was revealed the technology was being deployed widely last year without governance frameworks in...

Meta admits scraping Australian users’ posts to train AI

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian Facebook users’ posts from as far back as 2007 are being used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models, the company conceded on Wednesday at a tense Senate inquiry...

‘It’s really easy to waste money’: AI cost trap set

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian organisations are struggling to get value out of early AI deployments and could be walking into a cost trap, Gartner analysts warned on Monday, urging CIOs to study...

Harrison.ai’s new model beats GenAI giants

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Sydney-based Harrison.ai has launched a new AI model to help radiologists analyse and interpret their patients’ x-rays, proving twice as effective as major large language models. On Thursday, the...

Bridging the AI ambition gap requires urgent action

Posted on   |  by Simon Bush
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, in a recent address to the John Curtin Research Centre, articulated a compelling vision for Australia’s transition into the “fourth economy”, a future where technology, and...