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How did AI develop?

Rob Vis

Long before electronic computers, the allure of an artificial intelligence has co-existed with humans.

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What are the latest developments in AI?

Artificial Intelligence

AI offers us unprecedented opportunities to crack old nuts with new tools—that is, to apply new technologies to solve some of the fundamental problems affecting society.

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What’s artificial intelligence and what benefits does it deliver?

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There’s a lot of excitement about AI because it can work alongside us and act as a booster for human capabilities, allowing us to work smarter and more efficiently.

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New AI tech to bring human-like understanding of our 3D world

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Humans can easily understand the 3D world, why is it so hard for computers?

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Podium finish in global AI race contest

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An AIML team has scored double pole positions in a global virtual motor racing event that saw hundreds of AI researchers and engineers compete to build high performance virtual race cars.

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Australian AI experts head to New Orleans for the latest in computer vision

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Thousands of the world’s top artificial intelligence (AI) experts will travel to New Orleans, La., next week for the leading conference on computer vision; among them, researchers from the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) presenting 23 papers at the forefront of new research in the field.

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National AI Centre visits AIML and Lot Fourteen

NAIC Director Stela Solar meets with Professor Anton van den Hengel outside the AIML building

Earlier this week we welcomed the National Artificial Intelligence Centre (NAIC) to AIML and Lot Fourteen.

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Algorithmic audit for safer medical AI systems

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An artificial intelligence (AI) model trained to detect hip fractures from x-rays can outperform highly trained clinical specialists, but is also vulnerable to unexpected and potentially harmful errors, highlighting the need for ‘algorithmic audits’ of medical AI imaging systems, researchers say.

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AI for space research delivers back-to-back success in global satellite challenge

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South Australia’s leadership in space innovation has been recognised, with an AIML-led team securing first place in a global AI competition organised by the European Space Agency. 

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Tech and defence experts call to build ‘AI Australia’

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Australia must commit to building its sovereign AI research and innovation capability, or risk being left behind as other countries race to pursue their ambitious AI strategies.

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