You might think discussing data (rather than AI) from the government is so last decade, but think again! 🤔💡 The Aus Government Data Summit was an absolute blast! 🎉 The thoughtful questions and discussions from the public service continue to amaze me! 🙌 I had the privilege of delivering my talk on “𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈: 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠…

It was my privilege to present the opening keynote at Digital Transformation Summit, exploring one of my more provocative topics: “𝐀𝐈 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐀 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞.” This presentation navigated the audience through the evolving roles of humans (both laypersons and AI experts) in the progression from traditional, rule/logic/knowledge-based AI (GOFAI) to data-driven machine learning. It…

What an intellectually stimulating two days at the AIST’s AI International Symposium 2024 in Japan! 🇯🇵🧠 The symposium focused on the “Future Direction for Trustworthy and Responsible AI”. Day 2 also covered the latest progress in AI for Science. Yoshua Bengio ‘s talk on “Towards Quantitative Safety Guarantees and AGI Alignment” was thought-provoking and sobering all…

After a period of relaxation and intensive writing sessions for our upcoming book on 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬, I’m excited to resume regular updates. A lot has unfolded, and even more is on the horizon, so stay tuned. Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Australian Software Engineering Summer School,…

The biggest AI leadership day in Australia, during AI month! 🌟I participated in a panel on ‘Powering Productivity with Generative AI’. Here are my main messages: – Like car brakes enable cars to run faster and with confidence, responsible AI is crucial for accelerating AI technology adoption. Australia may not create the fastest or largest…

Here’s a curious thing: Generative AI can do more than create text, images, and videos. It’s also adept at generating code, diagnostics, plans, recommendations, predictions, and classifications… 🤔 But how does this differ from traditional predictive AI, planning AI, and AI recommenders? Or consider this: If an AI model can learn to perform all these…

I enjoyed the Defence AI Symposium 2023, which offered a diverse perspective on using AI in a defence context, emphasizing trustworthiness and responsibility. I delivered a talk titled “Beyond AI Models: Responsible AI in the Era of Frontier Models,” where I focused on: Selected Slides: Dropbox 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 at CSIRO’s Data61: https://lnkd.in/gyzjE4-i𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤: https://lnkd.in/gsQz5swy

🛫 I thoroughly enjoyed my quick 2-day trip to Singapore. I couldn’t resist a bit of mischief by titling my keynote at Singapore’s AIMX Conference, “Navigating Frontier AI Safety: The Science of Responsible AI in Australia” 🇦🇺, given it was just a day before the UK AI Safety Summit. 😜 Setting cheekiness aside, our scientific…

I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the October Sky event organized by Chaos1, where I gave a talk on ‘AI Transformation,’ featuring a deliberately provocative subtitle: ‘A Clash with Human Expertise.’ I opened with a 1945 quote from Vannevar Bush: ‘Consider a future device…in which an individual stores all his books, records, and…