Honoured to be named a finalist at the #AFRAIAwards for our Responsible AI work at CSIRO’s Data61. ๐ It was a fantastic night celebrating Australiaโs vibrant AI community โ and inspiring to see so many collaborators, alumni, and peers leading the charge on impactful AI innovation. At CSIRO, our ambition is simple: ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง…
๐ Whatโs the hottest trend in AI agents right now?Itโs not the traditional workflow-based or API-calling agents. The most interesting agents today are ๐๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ โ ones that see what you see on the screen. They donโt just execute calls behind the scenes โ they observe, interpret, and interact with visual interfaces just like human…
Did you know CSIRO’s Data61 open-source data catalog system, Magda https://magda.io/, powers data.gov.au and many other key infrastructure systems like national maps and digital twins across Australia โ and we recently launched a new version of it with in-browser LLM integration? But our research and engineering team (Jacky Jiang Chen Wang et al.) has also…
The newly released Auditor-General’s report on AI governance at the ATO is a good read. While I wonโt comment on the specific cases, the broader lessons for government entities (pages 13-14) are valuable and ring true. Given CSIRO’s Data61‘s contributions to the National Assurance Framework for Government Use of AI (released by DTA) and Australia’s…
The International Science Council has released a White Paper titled ‘Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI,’ which examines how different nations are approaching AI opportunities through their research ecosystems. I contributed to the Australian Case Study, including the pivotal role of CSIRO in AI for Science, responsible and safe AI, and general research-driven AI innovation.…
๐ฅ Why advance Quantum Machine Learning before we have million-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computers? ๐ค I get asked this a lot. The answer is multi-faceted:1๏ธโฃ ๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ โ Researching quantum ML now helps pinpoint which problems will benefit the most and steer quantum technology development in the right direction.2๏ธโฃ ๐๐ง๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ฌ โ Progress in one…
Worried about how AI value capture and redistribution can truly happen amidst the unbalanced power dynamics across the value chainโfrom data creators to labelers, to model creators, deployers, and users? Proud to share that the ๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง-๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ค๐๐ง๐ฌ (๐๐ ๐๐ฌ) ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐, ๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐, CSIRO’s Data61 researchers (Shiping Chen Xiwei (Sherry) Xu et al.) proposed has been recently…
๐ Exciting News! The ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก (๐๐๐๐) ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ is here! After a long journey, weโre thrilled to see it come to life with our great partner at Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML). Beyond the headline research topics, here are some of the key rationales behind our four research themes and how CSIRO’s Data61‘s…
๐ Congratulations to CSIRO for being ranked as the leading research institute in several fields in the latest Research Magazine published by the Australian! https://lnkd.in/gYKfrabf I want to call out two teams within my own research program at CSIRO’s Data61 ๐ The cybersecurity and quantum systems team has consistently held the #1 spot over the…
โญ๏ธโจ Itโs been an incredible week in San Francisco discussing AI Safety with experts across AI labs, civil society, government, and academia. A few key learnings:๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ: Real capabilities emerge only when AI is tested in realistic environments with access to powerful tools, real-world settings, agentic planning, and…
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