11 December 2019
Kiwi business women are leading the drive of one of New Zealand’s most significant technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), into 2020. The AI Forum of New Zealand has just appointed one of ANZ bank’s heads of technology, Megan Tapsell, as its chair, along with Simpson Grierson tech lawyer Louise Taylor as its deputy chair. Emma Naji, … Continue reading "Two new AI Forum reports released / Human Compatible AI / Changing of the guard"
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02 December 2019
The New Zealand financial sector is primed for AI (artificial intelligence), a new national research report says.
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28 November 2019
AI is one of the most revolutionary forces for the insurance trade in New Zealand today, a major landmark national AI report just released says.
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Two new AI Forum reports - AI for Health and AI for Agriculture in Aotearoa The AI Forum continues to publish the outputs of our research programme. Two new reports AI for Health in New Zealand / Haoura i te Atamai Iahiko and AI for Agriculture in New Zealand / Ahuwhenua i te Atam
November 1, 2019
AI is the 21st century’s number 8 wire for Kiwi agriculture, an artificial intelligence research report released today says. The new AI Forum of New Zealand report AI for Agriculture / Ahuwhenua i te Atamai Iahiko launched in Christchurch last night examines the New Zealand and international A
October 30, 2019
New Zealand’s district health boards are facing a $500 million annual deficit but artificial intelligence (AI) could annually contribute more than $700 million of value and savings to the New Zealand health system by 2026. The AI Forum of New Zealand launches their latest AI research repo
October 22, 2019
Kia ora readers, The AI Forum’s Working Group on Growing the AI Talent Pool has produced the recent findings of its New Zealand AI Talent Employer Survey. Over the last few months, the working group team carried out interview surveys of firms working with AI in New Zealand, w
October 8, 2019
AI wins at Hide and Seek using teamwork / AI generated images to replace stock photos? / AI in New Zealand’s Contact Centre sector Kia ora readers, Another fortnight, another set of amazing advances in AI! Last week, you may have caught the news (and great videos!) that researchers at AI
September 25, 2019
The AI Forum’s latest research “Towards our Intelligent Future” provides a policy framework for artificial intelligence highlighting the significant opportunity of AI to address well-being, sustainability and economic issues. The framework follows OECD recommendations of five key steps for
September 25, 2019
Time to Embrace Technology: New Zealand has too little technological change and adoption. In its first draft report, New Zealand, technology and productivity, the New Zealand Productivity Commission explores the impact of technology on jobs. It builds on research and modelling from academi
September 12, 2019
In case you missed it(!), last week the AI Forum released our latest research report Towards Our Intelligent Future - an AI Roadmap For New Zealand. The report focuses on how AI can be used to help achieve New Zealand’s existing wellbeing, sustainability and economic goals -
September 10, 2019
A significant national research study on Artificial Intelligence in New Zealand is painting a picture of the enormous prospects for the country from the use of AI, while also facing huge investment, talent and data challenges. The research by the AI Forum, entitled ‘Towards Our Intelligent Fut
September 10, 2019