Professor Liming Zhu

A very enjoyable day at the AFR Government Services Summit yesterday. Minister Leigh’s keynote set the tone: 𝗔𝗜-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝘀𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. This resonates deeply with me as a scientist viewing productivity growth and risk management through the…

𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚—𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧?That tension was front and centre at the 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗜 panel at the Defence AI Research Network (DAIRNet) Defense AI and Industry Symposium (part of ADM Defence Summit). Here are some of the messages I was trying to deliver: 𝟭. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲…

🧠 “𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁” is everyone’s magic bullet—but nobody seems to know the magic sauce.I opened Day 2 of the AI in Government Conference with a keynote on some of the hardest questions in AI-enabled decision-making: • 𝘋𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺—𝘰𝘳 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧…

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: 🔹 Everyone has an opinion on AI performance and risk—but personal…

💡 People often think scalable AI just means handling more transactions or bigger datasets. But scalability isn’t about size. 𝙄𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙪𝙗-𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨. 𝙉𝙤 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙨, 𝙣𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨. At the PAKDD AI Forum earlier today, I shared three dimensions of…

📚 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 transformed—both professionally and personally—through deep AI integration. With AI, I now digest over 2000 academic papers a year, share detailed notes with my…

🤔 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒇 𝑨𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓—𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒔? 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏? 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 on 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. A central, and perhaps contrarian, view I shared: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬. Increasingly, humans will converse with agents, and those agents—not humans—will interact with the…