08 October 2019
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.
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25 September 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 firm OpenAI trained agents in a simple … Continue reading "The AI Opportunity for New Zealand with Professor Michael Witbrock"
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25 September 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.
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10 September 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.
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In the first episode of our new podcast series, the AI Forum’s Ben Reid discusses the AI Opportunity for New Zealand with Professor Michael Witbrock, an AI Veteran recently returned to New Zealand. Michael is in charge of building the new Broad AI Lab at University of Auckland.
August 19, 2019
What does it mean to live in the age of intelligent machines? Recently, Doc Edge Schools, (a division of the Doc Edge Documentary Film Festival) screened More Human Than Human, a documentary that explores the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern society. In the film, Tommy Pallot
August 19, 2019
Kia Ora Readers Wow, this has been a busy few weeks in AI! Boosting AI Adoption in Aotearoa We had some lively discussions at our two recent panel events in Auckland and Wellington exploring AI Adoption in Aotearoa - check out the details here. Many thanks to all our panelists&
August 7, 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) already powers many of our daily interactions. In the same way that electricity transformed every industry more than a hundred years ago, AI is set to have a similar impact. Recently, the AI Forum hosted panel discussions in Auckland and Wellington to exp
August 6, 2019
Kia Ora readers, We’re looking forward to getting the AI Forum community together and hearing from expert AI panelists for discussing AI Adoption in Aotearoa this Wednesday at Victoria University in Wellington and next Tuesday at IBM in Auckland. If you haven’t alr
July 23, 2019
Kia ora readers, Later this month, the AI Forum is hosting two panel discussion events on 24 July in Wellington and 30 July in Auckland. Wellington panelists include Xero’s Christopher Laing and AI Advisory’s Emma Naji. In Auckland, IAG’s Ratneesh S
July 9, 2019
Kia ora Reader, CogX, the world’s largest festival of AI, was an amazing experience and an opportunity to gauge how New Zealand’s AI community compares to the rest of the world. Read my CogX highlights here. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning is a newly published, c
June 25, 2019
Last week I got to spend 3 days at CogX, the world's biggest "Festival of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology" in Kings Cross, London. The event is billed as the "Glastonbury of Tech" with over 10 stages hosting a full programme of speaker presentations and discussions together with
June 19, 2019
The AI Forum’s 2018 report, Artificial Intelligence: Shaping a Future New Zealand, suggested that adoption of AI in New Zealand Government is currently ‘disconnected and sparsely deployed.’ In the wake of this report, the Ministers for Government Digital Services and Statistics commissioned a
June 12, 2019