It’s a pity I missed attending the “Practical Approaches to Responsible AI Workshop” organized by the defence sector in person. CSIRO’s Data61‘s approach to responsible AI emphasizes practical, concrete, and measurable practices and outcomes. In software/system/AI engineering, the goal is always to create a trustworthy whole from less trustworthy parts, rather than focusing solely on…

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…