Great to speak on two panels yesterday at the Government Innovation Week NSW on Cyber Security and AI alongside some great panelists such as The Hon. Victor Dominello and the NSW Privacy Commissioner Sonia Minutillo. Here are my four messages across the two panels: ๐น Everyone has an opinion on AI performance and riskโbut personal…
๐ก People often think scalable AI just means handling more transactions or bigger datasets. But scalability isnโt about size. ๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐๐ฃ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ข ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ช๐ฃ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ง ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ ๐จ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก, ๐ค๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐ช๐-๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก, ๐ง๐๐จ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐๐๐จ. ๐๐ค ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐จ, ๐ฃ๐ค ๐ง๐๐๐๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ. At the PAKDD AI Forum earlier today, I shared three dimensions of…
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 How I Read Thousands of Papers In the Age of AI At a session for the Australian Public Service today, I gave a personal talk on how my reading life has transformedโboth professionally and personallyโthrough deep AI integration. With AI, I now digest over 2000 academic papers a year, share detailed notes with my…
๐ค ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐? ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐? At the NZ Government Data Summit, I shared three important, often overlooked insights from real-world AI deployments:– AI alone…
A great day at the WWW conference where I had the chance to present at the special event onย ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐-๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ. A central, and perhaps contrarian, view I shared: ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฌ. Increasingly, humans will converse with agents, and those agentsโnot humansโwill interact with the…
I donโt usually fall for AIโs ego-flattery, but I couldnโt resist trying out ChatGPTโs new memory feature by asking it to describe me based on all the chat history. A few gems stood out: Apparently, I resemble a ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฐ, and thatโs what makes me great. Since AI clearly sees itself as the peak…
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…
I had the pleasure of joining the IEEE Early Career Program Summit 2025 panel on โBridging Academia and Industry in Computing.โ It prompted me to reflect on two lessons I wish Iโd learned much earlier in my careerโbecause the conventional wisdom I heard early on turned out to be deeply limiting. ๐ปย ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ #๐: โ๐๐จ๐งโ๐ญ…
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…
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