Welcome to the AI life coach

Artificial intelligence is now being offered as the solution to every problem, and one application could be automated life coaches to help people manage their health and every day lives.

Can you trust AI?

AI offers another powerful tool to large tech firms looking to extend surveillance capitalism, which boils down to spying on you to make money off you.

Threats and opportunities

Artificial intelligence offers a range of short, medium and long term opportunities and threats to humanity, a situation complicated by the fact that threats and opportunities are often different things to different people.

Experts react to the Federal government’s AI discussion papers

The Albanese government is reportedly considering a ban on “high-risk” uses of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making, warning of potential harms including the creation of deepfakes and algorithmic bias, and a range of Australian experts and researches have given a mixed reaction to the papers informing this debate.

AI isn’t alive and won’t kill us – yet

AI researchers such as Eliezer Yudkowsky warn that the creation of ‘artificial general intelligence’ may herald the end of the human race, but more sanguine attitudes to the capabilities and intentions of AI are still possible.

The AI conundrum

One of the world’s top AI scientists is now describing AI as a new form of intelligence – one that poses unique risks, and will therefore require unique solutions.

AI never forgets

Many people now use ChatGPT at work or at home for a wide range of exploration and tasks, but we should all be careful not to give it confidential details about ourselves or our companies.

Not if, but when

AI chatbots based on large language models can beat people at advanced strategy games, generate incredible art, write blurbs and even diagnose cancers and compose music, but could they ever be as intelligent as humans?

A short history of artificial neural networks

Artificial neural networks are machine learning algorithms inspired by the biological structure and function of the human brain and may soon outstrip it in terms of intelligence and even creativity.

Making the most of ChatGPT

AI technology such as ChatGPT is here to stay and we should make the most of its ability to enhance human creativity and scientific discovery and lower barriers to learning, while remaining mindful of its potential misuse and downsides.

Tik-tok and the tyrants

The hope that technology and online information would liberate people from oppressive regimes has been dashed by the weaponisation of the internet and social media by Russia and China to oppress their own populations and poison international debate.

Stop, look and listen

The avalanche of possibilities triggered by the release and rapid development of AI chatbots is unlikely to slow, given the potential rewards for the winners of the race, but there are still reasons to pause.