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The age of intelligence – or AI hype?
Open Forum | September 28, 2024OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman argues that AI driven “superintelligence’ may be just a “few thousand days” away while behind the scenes he reportedly plans to turn the research organisation into a commercial company and take a 7% stake for himself.
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Towards a “nature positive” Australia
Anita Foerster | September 28, 2024Australia has a terrible track record of environmental destruction, a trend which continues unabated despite the Government signing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework two years ago.
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Supermarket sweep
Rob Nicholls | September 28, 2024The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is taking legal action against the big supermarkets over their misleading pricing claims.
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The new antisemitism
Dennis Altman | September 27, 2024A new book outlines how Israel’s action to defend itself against terrorist groups determined to destroy it has rekindled a broader swathe of anti-semitism across the world.
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A tsunami of slop
Jiaru Tang | September 27, 2024TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms are being flooded with a tsunami of meaningless, engagement farming AI generated slop and things are only getting worse.
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Pacific forum hack highlights security fears
Open Forum | September 27, 2024The public revelation that the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat was hacked by a foreign group has exposed significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the region.
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The A-Z of XEC
Richard Orton | September 26, 2024A new variant called XEC may soon become the dominant form of COVID around the world, so what it is and will it matter?
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The quest for “green” ammonia
Open Forum | September 26, 2024A new way of making ammonia by harnessing the unique power of liquid metal could lead to significant cuts in carbon emissions caused by production of the widely-used chemical.
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Accountable Dependable Forthright
Marcus Schultz | September 26, 2024The Army’s new capstone document is the best reference point for Australians to understand how the Service will contribute to the national defence strategy.
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Science or sausage factory?
Karin Verspoor | September 25, 2024A generative LLM trained on appropriate data can churn out something that looks like a good scientific paper but this doesn’t mean it has any value.
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TMI about TBI
Peter Crack | September 25, 2024The growing popularity of deceptively powerful e-scooters in the hands of often careless young riders is spiking the numbers of traumatic brain injuries but better treatments may be on the way.
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Safeguarding undersea cables
Jessie Jacob | September 25, 2024Australia relies on the digital connectivity that undersea cables provide and, with capacity-hungry 6G on the horizon, the need will only grow, increasing the need to protect them.
