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Apr
Apr
NZ, get ready for the AI tidal wave
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum, Media Release
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to deliver economic growth and productivity improvements but will impact some people’s jobs according to new research that is being pulled together for a leading national report to be released on May 2.
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Apr
Apr
AI-DAY 2018 – What a day!
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum Newsletter
05
Apr
Apr
AI-DAY 2018 a huge success!
Chantal Thomas 0 comments AI Forum
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Mar
Mar
Ethics of artificial intelligence critical to its success
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum, Media Release
The ethics of artificial intelligence will be critical to the success of AI going forward, a Microsoft leader and a keynote speaker at the AI Day event in Auckland next week says.
Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI Business, says that given AI has the potential to reshape not just industries and governments, but society as a whole.
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Mar
Mar
Tech researchers on the cusp of an evolution with machines
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum, Media Release
The world’s tech experts are on the verge of seeing a major shift in relationships between people and machines, according to a key speaker heading to AI Day in Auckland on March 28.
IBM Distinguished Designer Adam Cutler says what interests him the most is the connection between people and machines.
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Mar
Mar
Digital change expected to lose and create many jobs
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum, TechLeaders
Digital transformation, including automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to impact many current jobs and the income of many New Zealanders, a high-powered national tech leaders group says.
It is predicted that artificial intelligence and automation alone, will quickly change both the number of jobs and types of available employment.
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Mar
Mar
A New Zealand company has created a world-first artificial intelligence (AI) medical platform for medical researchers and clinicians to create AI to auto-diagnose a large range of diseases based on a single photograph.
Dunedin company oDocs, which created the system for Medicmind, says the AI system is working well and is ready for beta testing.
MedicMind spokesman Glenn Linde says there’s no other system that is specifically for medical researchers.
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Mar
Mar
Encouraging more women into AI
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum Newsletter
Visiting New Zealand for last month’s Digital Nations conference, we welcomed Tomáš Ižo, Engineering Director at the Google Research Machine Perception Group. Tomáš presented to a full house in Wellington with a wide ranging talk covering technical and societal issues associated with AI. This was followed by a lively Q&A session too.
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Mar
Mar
AI bringing exciting possibilities to NZ
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum, Media Release
In Phoenix, Arizona, cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are speaking to digital assistants, with the machines responding.
Smartphones and apps can now recognise faces in photos and translate from one language to another, to name a few other examples of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Mar
Mar
Hopelessly addicted inventor saving native birds with AI
Georgia Taylor 0 comments AI Forum, Media Release
A researcher described as a hopelessly addicted inventor who is using artificial intelligence (AI) to find native bird predators such as rats, stoats and possums, will be an interesting speaker at AI Day in Auckland on March 28.
