馃Do yourself a favour and listen to this podcast from Matt Bevan (ABC). In this episode Matt tackles the humanoid robot hype, the inherent technical challenges, and how our dreams for useful robot helpers has a long history of attracting grifters of all sorts. 鉂わ笍馃 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
The AI boom is driving major price hikes for consumer electronics as AI chipmakers take first dibs on critical memory hardware. 馃搱
Read more, including thoughts from RMIT University's @olegzendel.bsky.social and UNSW's @suekeay.bsky.social: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
The loss of expertise is staggering. The US is sacrificing its future under the Trump administration. 馃И
Merry Christmas. Enjoy!
So Alex Honnold is free climbing Taipei 101 and my mum wants to know why he is not wearing socks.
This should set off alarms. China didn鈥檛 just catch up in AI- it scaled faster, trained younger, and plugged itself into global research networks, including ours. This isn鈥檛 hype- ignoring it would be a strategic mistake. #AI #China #NationalSecurity
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Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash
Australian businesses are throwing money at heavily hyped artificial intelligence solutions but just one in seven companies is seeing revenue gains as a result, new surveys have shown as CEOs worry they are not keeping up with AI鈥檚 risk and complexity.
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Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industries
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The Productivity Commission has abandoned a proposal to allow tech companies to mine copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models, after a fierce backlash from the creative industries.
Instead, the government鈥檚 top economic advisory body recommended the government wait three years before deciding whether to establish an independent review of Australian copyright settings and the impact of the disruptive new technology. Continue reading...
