Tag: AI

News Wrap: All quiet on the mandatory guardrail front

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It has been strangely quiet at Parliament House in Canberra this week, considering a national economic summit was being hosted by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. All the action was taking...

Chalmers agrees to ‘make AI a national priority’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Dedicated industry and government plans to harness artificial intelligence will be developed with urgency after the Albanese government and stakeholders agreed to elevate the frontier technology to a “national...

How AI actually works and why it’s trouble for tech giants

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
As Australia looks to artificial intelligence to lead a new wave of productivity it’s worth remembering its mathematical limitations and that the frontier vendors will ruthlessly chase their losses....

Sovereign AI builder’s warning on hasty AI rules

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s lone builder of a sovereign large language model has backed a wait and see approach to AI regulation as the Albanese government signals it will be months before...

Gap analysis shows existing laws ‘inadequate’ for AI age

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s existing regulations are “inadequate” to deal with the emerging risks from general-purpose AI models, according to a new study that surveyed dozens of experts in the field. As...

Productivity tsar hoses down sovereign AI support hopes

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Productivity Commission says artificial intelligence will be as transformative electricity, the internal combustion engine and the Internet, but is not convinced sovereign AI development should be targeted by...

DTA flags AI ‘PoC hell’ as emerging APS risk

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government agencies may have barely scratched the surface with artificial intelligence, but those that have are increasingly finding themselves trapped in a cycle of endless proof of concept...