Tag: National AI Centre

The Gig Guide: Innovation advocate bows out of WA Parliament

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Western Australian independent Wilson Tucker has farewelled the Legislative Council after a four-year term that saw him pushing for smarter innovation and tech policy. A former software engineer, Mr...

Australia’s data economy is missing in FMiA action

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Since the April launch of the federal government’s $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia mission, currently the subject of heated debate in parliament, we have been repeatedly told that...

Introducing the AI Industry Pioneer Award 2024

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The dramatic shift across the economy toward artificial intelligence products and services will be recognised at the 2024 InnovationAus Awards for Excellence with the creation of a new category...

National AI Centre stripped from CSIRO in $40m policy shift

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Federal funding for artificial intelligence was reshaped in the Albanese government’s third Budget with an additional $40 million, but there is little direct industry investment as quantum and clean...

CSIRO teams with UTS on AI safety standard

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The country’s national science agency is moving fast to develop best practice guidance for businesses developing and deploying artificial intelligence, teaming with UTS’s Human Technology Institute and the wider...

CSIRO targets startups for AI commercialisation program

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A new AI competition for startups has been launched by the CSIRO’s National AI Centre in collaboration with Google Cloud and co-working space Stone and Chalk. Over three months...

Aussie AI sector faces familiar translation challenges

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Artificial intelligence companies and research are growing rapidly in Australia, putting it among global leaders, according to new research by the national science agency that identifies opportunities to double...

Businesses offered crash course on AI ethics

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian organisations are being urged to tighten their use of artificial intelligence with the application of ethics principles ahead of potentially sweeping changes to regulations and standards. The CSIRO’s...