Tag: AI
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Top public servant to lead SA’s office for AI
Seasoned public servant Peter Meere has been appointed as director of South Australia’s Office for AI following what the government said was a comprehensive international search. According to Michael Brown MP, who is assistant minister for artificial intelligence, digital economy, defence and space industries, Meere will drive the South Australian government’s strategic and responsible adoption…
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Ethics fears over Queensland departments’ AI policies
The Department of Transport could be breaching Queenslanders’ privacy, a report has found, over its failure to identify ethical risks in AI image-recognition technology. A Queensland Audit Office report into a departments, including The Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business (CDSB) and the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR),…
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What the Grok drama reveals about AI training
Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and built by Elon Musk’s company xAI, is back in the headlines after calling itself “MechaHitler” and producing pro-Nazi remarks. The developers have apologised for the “inappropriate posts” and “taken action to ban hate speech” from Grok’s posts on X. Debates about AI bias…
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AI conversation shifts as labour market settles
Not long ago, labour costs were the elephant in every boardroom. Rising wages, shrinking talent pools – it was the same story in nearly every conversation. But the conversation is changing fast. Labour costs have quietly slipped down the list of things keeping middle market leaders awake at night, according to the latest Business Radar…
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Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler in shock posts
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has sparked outcry with a stream of posts praising Hitler and making shocking antisemitic remarks. The disturbing content came after Musk on the weekend announced the bot had been revamped, after he had earlier complained of it being too “woke”. Grok, which was developed by the Musk-founded company xAI, has…
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AI Insights: Ditch the Google mindset
Everyone’s talking about AI, but figuring out how to actually work with it can be a bit of a head-scratcher. If you’re even remotely curious about the possibilities, the first thing you need to do is start exploring – but with a completely new perspective. And the biggest hurdle to jump? Understanding that AI is NOT Google search. Seriously,…
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Blackfriars leading the way in embrace of AI
Blackfriars Priory School Principal David Ruggiero is a vocal advocate for the use of AI in schools, embracing the technology himself and encouraging his staff to do likewise. “It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT was launched just a little over two years ago, in late November 2022,” Mr Ruggiero said. “Initially, it was pretty basic…
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Robots, romance and reality: The new era of sextech
I had the privilege of MCing a recent Sexology in Symposium conference where sexologists from all over Australia explored the intersections of sexuality, culture and technology. Among these fascinating topics, one presentation caught my attention: Robots, Romance, and Reality: The New Era of Sextech by Bryony Cole. A pioneer in the sextech space, and founder…
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AI sexbots are just getting started
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting personal. Chatbots are designed to imitate human interactions, and the rise of realistic voice chat is leading many users to form emotional attachments or laugh along with virtual podcast hosts. And that’s before we get to the really intimate stuff. Research has shown that sexual roleplaying is one of the…
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The internet used to be ‘fun and full of information’ – so what has changed it so much?
To some, it is “less fun and less informative” than it used to be. To others, online searches are made up of “cookie cutter” pages that drown out useful information and are saturated with scams, spam and content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Your social media feeds are full of eye-catching, provocative, hyper-targeted, or…