Tag: artificial intelligence

OpenAI to open first Australian outpost

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will open its first Australian office in Sydney before the year is out, in a move the artificial intelligence giant says reflects the country’s rapidly growing user...

ResetData spins up its first sovereign ‘AI factory’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
An AI supercomputer more powerful than Australia’s leading research compute clusters has come online, offering a new platform for businesses and governments to access sovereign AI compute infrastructure. ResetData...

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...

AI won’t drive productivity without targeted govt policy

Posted on   |  by Dr Marina Yue Zhang
Productivity Commission chief Danielle Wood is right to describe artificial intelligence as a “general-purpose technology” in the mold of electricity, the internal combustion engine, or the internet. Where she...

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...