Tag: artificial intelligence

4AI Systems is bringing high-tech vision perception to trains

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
The use of high-tech sensing technology in cars has boosted safety and reduced the likelihood of human errors leading to catastrophic consequences.  But the benefits of these technologies have...

SA cracks down on AI deepfakes in political advertising

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
South Australia has become the first state or territory to ban AI-generated political ads and deepfakes aimed at misleading voters, with the changes coming into effect on Monday. Political parties,...

US AI medtech to expand Victorian R&D hub

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
US-backed AI retinal imaging company Optain Health will grow its presence in Melbourne after backing from the Victorian government, with plans for a new Asia-Pacific headquarters and an expanded...

Treasury review avoids ‘hard issues’ on AI liability

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A Treasury review says Australia’s consumer laws are equipped to respond to many of the harms arising from artificial intelligence, and in some instances offer better protections than comparable...

Australian AI builder drops ‘sovereign’ moniker

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A Melbourne company that touted itself as one of Australia’s only builders of truly “sovereign” large language models is pulling back on the rhetoric, saying the term is too...

Hollywood union condemns AI-generated ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood

Posted on   |  by Steve Gorman and Danielle Broadway
The recent debut of an AI-generated “actress” dubbed Tilly Norwood, and its producer’s boasts of interest from studio executives, sparked a backlash on Tuesday from the SAG-AFTRA actors union,...

Investors look past AI hype to long-term govt spending lift

Posted on   |  by Divya Chowdhury
Some of the world’s biggest investors are looking beyond a boom in artificial intelligence to longer-term spending by governments tackling geopolitical, technological and demographic pressures set to reshape markets over...

Nvidia to invest up to US$100bn in OpenAI

Posted on   |  by Deepa Seetharaman and Akash Sriram
Nvidia will invest up to US$100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data centre chips, the companies said on Monday, marking a tie-up between two of the highest-profile...

Australian ambition must include local AI models: Charlton

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia should be ambitious about creating local AI models and building the tools and applications that will run on them, assistant minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy...