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AI/Machine Learning

Australian politicians want OpenAI and other artificial intelligence platforms like Meta’s Llama regulated as ‘high-risk’

- November 30, 2024 3 MIN READ

A parliamentary inquiry into generative artificial intelligence has suggested products of tech giants such as OpenAI, Amazon, Meta, and Google should treated as “high-risk” under dedicated AI laws. On Tuesday, the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence tabled a report on the “opportunities and impacts” coming from Australia’s uptake of AI. The 222-page report raised 13… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

How The Terminator is shaping our concerns about AI, 40 years on

- November 1, 2024 4 MIN READ

October 26, 2024, marked the 40th anniversary of director James Cameron’s science fiction classic, The Terminator – a film that popularised society’s fear of machines that can’t be reasoned with, and that “absolutely will not stop … until you are dead”, as one character memorably puts it. The plot concerns a super-intelligent AI system called… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Why we need a mindshift on AI and emotional data – and how startups will build a future of self-awareness

- October 31, 2024 3 MIN READ

Recently, Channel 10’s ‘The Project’ aired a segment on inTruth Technologies, the company I founded in 2021 to tackle one of the most significant challenges of our world today; self awareness and mental health. inTruth is the first of its kind; a technology that can track emotion with clinical grade accuracy through consumer grade wearables.… Read more »

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Accelerator

4 Australian startups –  Contact Harald, Marqo, Relevance AI, Splash Music – make the cut for Amazon’s global Generative AI Accelerator

- September 13, 2024 3 MIN READ

Four Australian artificial intelligence-based startups will feature among 80 globally in the second AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator program. Contact Harald, Marqo, Relevance AI, and Splash Music were selected for the program and score up to US$1 million each in AWS credits, mentorship, and education to accelerate AI innovation with AWS. They’ll also get the chance… Read more »

Landscape aerial view of Sydney Opera house near Sydney business center by AdobeStock's Generative AI model, Firefly.
AI/Machine Learning

Generative AI hype is still high, but we’re still a few years away from it becoming a truly useful tool

- August 21, 2024 4 MIN READ

Less than two years ago, the launch of ChatGPT started a generative AI frenzy. Some said the technology would trigger a fourth industrial revolution, completely reshaping the world as we know it. In March 2023, Goldman Sachs predicted 300 million jobs would be lost or degraded due to AI. A huge shift seemed to be… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

AI has been scraping photos Australian kids for training data sets

- July 12, 2024 3 MIN READ

Photos of Australian children have been used without consent to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that generate images. A new report from the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch has found the personal information, including photos, of Australian children in a large data set called LAION-5B. This data set was created by accessing content from the… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

Scott Galloway’s Section School is coming to Australia to teach AI

- July 5, 2024 2 MIN READ

The fast-track business school founded by Professor Scott Galloway, the outspoken New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is coming to Australia to teach artificial intelligence (AI). Galloway’s Section School has partnered with BSI Digital Learning to launch the National School for Upskilling in Artificial Intelligence, offering an “AI Crash Course”. BSI Learning CEO… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

The Tech Council wants more artificial intelligence training for workers support up to 200,000 AI-related jobs by 2030

- July 2, 2024 2 MIN READ

The creative destruction to workplaces wrought by artificial intelligence (AI) could create up to 200,000 jobs to replace those it also takes, according to a new report from the Tech Council of Australia (TCA). While AI has many fearful that they’ll be made redundant, the report, produced in partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn and Workday, argues… Read more »

Accelerator

Here are the 15 amazing AI startups in Build Club’s first cohort – and the winners heading to San Francisco to pitch to US VCs

- June 22, 2024 6 MIN READ

If Build Club founder Annie Liao needs a motto, it should be “Move fast and make things”. This week, the 15 artificial intelligence (AI) startups accepted into the inaugural Build Club Accelerator graduated after an intensive six weeks, culminating in Monday’s Demo Day. Liao set out to create an accelerator program backing technical AI engineers… Read more »

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Accelerator

ARM Hub and MTPConnect collaborate on a new AI accelerator for biomed startups

- June 17, 2024 2 MIN READ

The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub and MTPConnect have teamed up to launch the Biomedical AI Sprints Accelerator (BASA) so biomedical startup can harness the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI).  BASA will offer $25,000-50,000 in matched funding and upskill high-growth startup teams in using AI and data analytics, giving them access to… Read more »