Artificial intelligence reshaping the jobs market in Australia’s biggest cities
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Artificial intelligence reshaping the jobs market in Australia’s biggest cities

There were 756 jobs ads across Australia that referenced AI skills in 2012. By 2021,there were 20,505.

  • byAnthony Galloway

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Another robo-debt disaster’s inevitable if we give AI too much autonomy
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Another robo-debt disaster’s inevitable if we give AI too much autonomy

AI is only as good as the algorithm that operates it,the data that trains it and the law that underpins it. If these are ineffective,as with robo-debt,then calamity can ensue.

  • byRachael Falk
The extra 0.000000000000003¢ on electric vehicle bills that makes little sense

The extra 0.000000000000003¢ on electric vehicle bills that makes little sense

Victoria’s revised road user charge for electric vehicle drivers is 2.8¢ per kilometre. On VicRoads bills it has been itemised as 2.8000000000000003¢ a kilometre. EV drivers say the blunder is indicative of bad policy and bad administration.

  • byBroede Carmody
Widodo pushes for deal with Australia on electric vehicles

Widodo pushes for deal with Australia on electric vehicles

The Indonesian leader wants to join forces on producing electric vehicle batteries and hopes to seal a partnership as he meets Anthony Albanese in Sydney.

  • byChris Barrett
It’s called artificial intelligence,which sounds scary,but that doesn’t make it bad
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It’s called artificial intelligence,which sounds scary,but that doesn’t make it bad

Advances in AI could make our lives nicer in previously unimaginable ways. If we can shake the image of an AI boogeyman.

  • byTim Biggs
‘The network effect’:Google drone nests set their sights on suburbs

‘The network effect’:Google drone nests set their sights on suburbs

Wing,the drone company operated by Google’s parent Alphabet,has been using Australia as a testing ground and turned south Queensland into the drone delivery capital of the world.

  • byTim Biggs
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You wouldn’t let a stranger into your house. For most of us,they’re already there
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You wouldn’t let a stranger into your house. For most of us,they’re already there

We expect checks and balances for safety,wellbeing,and risk mitigation. Curiously,most of us blithely embrace new technology without the same concerns or regulatory oversight.

  • byEmma McDonald
The ‘world’s most controversial company’ and the double-edged power of AI

The ‘world’s most controversial company’ and the double-edged power of AI

Facial recognition is a particularly fraught application of AI.

  • byCampbell Wilson
We have put the world in danger with AI,admits ChatGPT creator

We have put the world in danger with AI,admits ChatGPT creator

Tech companies are in danger of unleashing a rogue artificial intelligence that will cause “significant harm to the world”,the creator of ChatGPT has admitted.

  • byMatthew Field
Elon Musk’s ‘TruthGPT’ may have a very narrow definition of truth
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Elon Musk’s ‘TruthGPT’ may have a very narrow definition of truth

After publicly opposing AI chatbot development,Elon Musk may launch his own product. Thankfully,he believes it would be “unlikely to annihilate humans”.

  • byTim Biggs
Snapchat,the quirky little brother of social media,grows up in influencer chase

Snapchat,the quirky little brother of social media,grows up in influencer chase

The company’s figures show rapid growth in India,the world’s most populous market and one that has banned one of Snapchat’s key competitors:TikTok.

  • byNick Bonyhady