Lessons and observations from my meetings with Japan’s government and science agencies on critical tech, critical infrastructure, quantum, AI, and AI Safety! ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐บ A great two days. I had the privilege of engaging with the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), AI Safety Institute Secretariat (AISI), Information-technology Protection Agency (IPA), Ministry of…
What an intellectually stimulating two days at the AIST’s AI International Symposium 2024 in Japan! ๐ฏ๐ต๐ง 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…
Despite #AI dominating every conversation, the most fascinating developments often occur at the intersection of AI and other technologies, such as quantum computing, blockchain, and cybersecurity. Since its inception in 2016, I have chaired Australia’s blockchain standards committee, witnessing the rise, fall, and resurgence of interest and diverse use cases of blockchain/crypto. Vitalik Buterin’s recent article on…
After a period of relaxation and intensive writing sessions for our upcoming book on ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฌ, 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! ๐I 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… ๐ค 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 โBeyond AI Models: Responsible AI in the Era of Frontier Models,โ where I focused on: Selected Slides: Dropbox ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก at CSIRO’s Data61: https://lnkd.in/gyzjE4-i๐๐จ๐จ๐ค: https://lnkd.in/gsQz5swy
I am often asked, โ๐ผ๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ถโ๐๐ก๐บ๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐โ๐๐๐๐๐๐?โ Powerful Foundation Models (FM) not only write increasingly sophisticated code, but they also perform a growing range of functions within the trained blackbox model, where no traditional code is ever written. My answer was finally put to the…
๐ซ 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” ๐ฆ๐บ, given it was just a day before the UK AI Safety Summit. ๐ Setting cheekiness aside, our scientific…
Just wrapped up an insightful trip to Japan! After presenting NAIC/Data61’s work on responsible AI at the UN IGF, I had the privilege to visit several top AI institutes and delve deeper into Japan’s AI initiatives, such as JSTโs Trustworthy/Trusted AI programs, Tokyo University, Waseda University, NII, RIKEN AIP, and AIST. Exciting collaboration opportunities lie…
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