30 November 2023
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the fusion of traditional wisdom with artificial intelligence (AI) is more important than ever.
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01 November 2023
Ahead of the Aotearoa AI Summit 2023, Mott MacDonald’s Maria Mingallon facilitated an exclusive pre-event workshop, Unveiling the future: Bridging AI and IoT in infrastructure.
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31 October 2023
New Branding You may have noticed our new logo popping up online. We were very excited when Supermoon, a globally recognised branding agency with a strong Kiwi link, approached us with a gratis offer we couldn’t refuse! They provided us with four equally good options which we presented to our Kahui Māori and a subset of … Continue reading "The Role of AI: Forever a Co-pilot or Future Pilot in Command?"
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21 September 2023
The Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AIFNZ) Annual Meeting is coming soon and there is now a chance for you, or your organisation, to be involved in shaping the future direction of our Aotearoa AI sector!
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Ming Cheuk, www.elementx.ai In the rapidly ascending world of AI, the term "co-pilot" is becoming increasingly prominent. Whether it's GitHub Copilot helping develop software or an AI-enhanced successor to Microsoft's Clippy making document editing a breeze, the term captures a synergy betw
September 21, 2023
In the lead up to our AI Summit next month we are all still buzzing from our second annual AI for the Environment Hackathon Festival. With six venues in Auckland, Christchurch, Waikato and Wellington, and joined for the first time by Fiji, the level of competition really hotted up and the qualit
August 31, 2023
Tēnā tātou katoa The excitement levels are showing no signs of slowing down - and our next two months are all about engagement, with two of our most significant annual events happening in August and September alongside a number of events our expert members are speaking at. AI for the Envir
July 26, 2023
Listen to Ben King, co-founder of Boxfish Research, the visionaries of underwater robotics, talk about their innovative autonomous underwater vehicle ARV-i. Read more about Boxfish here. Collaborating with Norway’s Transmark Subsea, Boxfish developed a world-first, dockable hovering autonomous
July 21, 2023
Source: Meta Takeaways- Today, we’re introducing the availability of Llama 2, the next generation of our open source large language model. - Llama 2 is free for research and commercial use. - Microsoft and Meta are expanding their longstanding partnership, with Microsoft as the prefe
July 20, 2023
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington was proud to launch Te Whiri Kawe - the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on 13 June 2023 at the Kelburn campus. The Centre brings together expertise and innovation in data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learnin
July 20, 2023
As part of Techweek TV AI Forum Executive Council Member Glen Willoughby interviewed NASA intern Daniel Wrench about his experience working in the AI and Analytics Division at NASA. Daniel is studying a PhD in Physics and Data Science at Victoria University of Wellington, looking at data process
June 12, 2023
Article by Maria Mingallon, Automation and Computational Design Global Lead at Mott MacDonald Introduction: Severe weather events, including frequent and devastating flooding, have posed significant challenges for communities around the world. In New Zealand, the recent impact of Cyclone Gabr
June 7, 2023
Tēnā tātou katoa It’s been a busy month at AI Forum NZ. Here are some of the exciting things we’ve been working on. Tomorrow, Today Event SeriesOn 27 June in Christchurch, we launch a series of societal level discussions clearly focused on the Forum’s purpose: harnessing the power of
May 31, 2023