Crowdsourced delivery start-up Passel is partnering with Swinburne University to develop algorithms to help it identify the best person to notify about a potential courier job.
Google Australia’s managing director, Mel Silva, says that the search company is concerned by a preliminary Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recommendation to create what she describes as an “algorithm regulator”.
Ford Motor Company is seeking a quantum algorithms researcher as it ramps up its internal quantum computing research effort.
The institute will undertake research in the emerging field of quantitative fairness and work with the public and private sectors to put the research into practice. It will release open source ethical AI tools that can be adopted and adapted, says director Bill Simpson-Young.
The University of Melbourne has launched an online quantum computer simulator and programming environment aimed at making students and industry 'quantum ready'.
IBM has launched a software service that it claims can explain how AI makes decisions “as the decisions are being made”.
Google today launched Cirq, an open source framework for running algorithms on the quantum computers that will be available in the near future.
A project examining the use of algorithms by NZ government agencies has been announced by the government digital services minister Clare Curran and statistics minister James Shaw.
Drones have proved hugely beneficial to ecologists in improving our understanding of animals in the wild.
IBM today revealed the names of the 12 clients to be given early access to its 20 qubit quantum computer.
AWS’ ANZ managing director Paul Migliorini says there is an appetite among Australian organisations to try their hand at machine learning.
Google’s artificial intelligence research arm DeepMind has launched a unit focused on ethics and society.
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.
A prediction: You’re going to hear the term ‘prescriptive analytics’ a lot more often.