4 prompts for success with AI

As tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot and other generative artificial intelligence systems become part of everyday workflows, more companies are looking for employees who can prompt effectively, think with AI, and use it to boost productivity.

Scientists create biological AI system

Australian scientists have successfully developed a research system that uses ‘biological artificial intelligence’ to design and evolve molecules with new or improved functions directly in mammal cells.

AI could help attain sustainable development goals

A new platform aims to cultivate “collective intelligence” and drive holistic progress towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

How the sausage is made

The flaws, failures and unexpected outputs of AI systems can reveal more about how these technologies actually work than the polished, successful outputs they produce.

CSIRO releases playbook for smarter AI investment decisions

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has released a guide to help organisations plan and invest in the right artificial intelligence projects to avoid costly failures.

Don’t trust Dr Chatbot

Trust your doctor, not a chatbot. That’s the stark lesson from a world-first study published today that demonstrates why we shouldn’t be taking health advice generated by artificial intelligence.

The whole truth

Refined AI models, combined with retrieval or ‘RAG’ systems, have the capacity to summarise, review and analyse documents but courts and legal regulators are warning lawyers not to rely on generative AI without checking their work – and in some instances advised not to use it at all.

Now you’re talking

A multilingual chatbot could lead to better triage assessments at hospitals in multicultural areas and better outcomes for linguistically diverse patients across Australia.

An Australian home for AI

Targeted government investment in energy infrastructure, streamlined regulatory processes, strategic policy support and local innovation could unlock Australia’s competitive advantages in hosting the data centres vital for AI.

Will AI solve Australia’s productivity problem?

If AI is going to be an effective treatment for Australia’s productivity challenge, then workers must be an essential part of the recovery team, rather than cast aside to slash costs for companies and organisations.

All the slop that’s fit to print

An ever greater percentage of the news that people consume is generated by AI, rather than people.

An overview of overviews

Terrified of losing its search monopoly to AI sites unencumbered by advertising and SEO, Google is promoting AI overviews in its own search results, but this may starve the sites which depend on search links of the revenue they need to survive.