Tag: artificial intelligence

Qld govt funds new AI hub

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The Queensland government has pledged seed funding for a new artificial intelligence hub being built to address the skills shortage in the tech sector. As part of its $650...

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...

AI ethics gets complicated

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Conversations around ethics may have always been complex but it’s about to get a lot more complicated when artificial intelligence (AI) gets thrown into the mix. The nation’s chief...

Finkel floats an ethical AI plan

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Australia chief scientist Alan Finkel has proposed an agreed set of ethical standards for artificial intelligence be imposed on companies to protect consumers and the broader economy from nefarious...

Gov’t ponders AI’s governing ethics

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The growing influence of AI powered systems on our daily lives has got governments keen to be on top of the AI wave rather than paddling furiously to catch...

On AI and strategic policy

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Australia is on the horns of an artificial intelligence dilemma just like the rest of the planet. But while our business leaders have begun to turn their attention to...

CEDA’s Cilento on data analytics

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The transforming potential of data and analytics is the focus of CEDA’s Economic and Political outlook report for 2018. But it questions Australia’s preparedness to meet challenges in these...

Queensland’s AI skills drought

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A skills shortage in the rapidly emerging area of artificial intelligence (AI) in Queensland is putting a drag on the state’s innovation drive, according to global job site Indeed....