Google’s DeepMind launches ethics unit
Google’s artificial intelligence research arm DeepMind has launched a unit focused on ethics and society.
Google’s artificial intelligence research arm DeepMind has launched a unit focused on ethics and society.
The government is backing research into the use of robots to identify bacteria in pig and chicken faeces on a massive scale.
Candice Reed – Australia’s first baby conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) – is now in her late 30s. Since her birth in Melbourne in 1980 more than 200,000 children have been born here as a result of IVF-type treatments.
A group of IT leaders gathered in Sydney for an exclusive Computerworld and Lenovo roundtable discussion about the power and possibilities of the connected world of HPC and AI. With HPC considered the engine and ‘lifeblood’ fuelling AI, the technology is no longer just in the hands of researchers and educational facilities, but is sweeping large enterprise thanks to advances in Big Data and massive computational power.
The operator of the Australian Securities Exchange, ASX, will complete an assessment of blockchain-style distributed ledger technology (DLT) as a replacement for its CHESS system by the end of the year, the company said today.
The UK government has opened an inquiry into artificial intelligence that will assess the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in the field.
As machine learning become more ubiquitous, there are growing calls for the technologies to explain themselves in human terms.
Kaggle, the community data science platform originally coded in a Bondi bedroom, this week surpassed 1 million members.
The University of Sydney has partnered with Chinese robotics company UBTECH to launch a research centre dedicated to artificial intelligence.
University of Adelaide researchers have used deep-learning image analysis techniques to determine patient lifespans.
A hackathon backed by Transport for NSW has been won by an app that lets rail users and operators identify carriage occupancy in real time.
Artificial intelligence systems that can explain their decision making process in human terms are now the subject of intense research by software and cloud vendor Oracle, the company’s senior vice president of data-driven applications revealed yesterday.
An AI expert has forecast the rise of ‘data labs’ in the healthcare sector, that will do for data what a blood lab does for blood samples.
Google and Jigsaw (an early stage incubator at Google parent company Alphabet) are working on a project called Perspective that aims to curb online abuse through Artificial Intelligence
Monash University and the University of Melbourne have both scored funding from the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) CREATE program.