Tag: Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh calls for investment push on sovereign AI

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia is ill-prepared to take advantage of the opportunities being created by artificial intelligence and is not investing sufficiently in sovereign capability to adequately safeguard the national interest, according...

The pause AI movement is remarkable, but won’t work

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
The open letter calling for an immediate six-month pause in the AI development arms race and signed by more than 1600 tech luminaries, researchers and responsible technology advocates under...

UNSW pushes ahead with new AI research institute

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new artificial intelligence institute at the University of New South Wales hopes to forge interdisciplinary connections between researchers and improve commercialisation opportunities. The UNSW AI Institute launched on...

CSIRO exec to oversee Australian Research Council

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
CSIRO’s chief operating officer Judi Zielke has been appointed acting chief executive of the Australian Research Council (ARC) in a move away from the academic experience of previous leaders...

ARC grants: Politicians must stop meddling

Posted on   |  by Professor Toby Walsh
In countries like Denmark and Germany, gifts are given on Christmas Eve, rather than Christmas morning. Likewise, on Christmas Eve 2021, 587 groups of researchers at universities around Australia...

Plans to restrict foreign research teams ‘dangerous’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government plan to crackdown on foreign research collaboration on emerging technologies is a “dangerous development” that risks holding back burgeoning sectors such as artificial intelligence, UNSW Professor...

Uninspiring: ScoMo’s tech adoption fail

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Local tech leaders have railed against Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s emphasis on tech adoption rather than creation, branding it “uninspiring”, lacking in ambition and “the opposite of what we...

Sport, data, and an unspooling privacy problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia has a chance to be ahead of the curve and get the settings right to prevent the further invasive collection of data in professional sport, according to Professor...