A quick AI wrap this week as I am on holiday! So haven’t had the same time to read this week while trying to get everything done before heading off.  The fabulous Claire Amos wrote a post on assessment in the age of AI from her perspective as a High School principal. Thanks Claire for […]

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment this week became the first government department to explicitly ban staff from using ChatGPT. MBIE cited data security and privacy risks as the reason for the blanket ban, but the Department of internal Affairs, home to the Government Chief Digital Officer, is allowing its staff to use ChatGPT […]

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With hospitals overwhelmed and patients facing big delays, it’s tempting to think that the health sector is a prime candidate to receive a much-needed productivity boost from artificial intelligence. Despite its well-proven use in medical diagnostics and other areas of healthcare, low trust in AI among patients and clinicians alike is a big barrier to […]

Apple has debuted its long-anticipated mixed reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, with the aim of creating a “fully three-dimensional user interface” but with an eye-watering price tag. The US$3,499 ($5,764) Vision Pro features a new headset operating system VisionOS that presents common Apple apps such as Safari, FaceTime and Apple TV+ overlaid on the […]

When you look around the world, most advanced economies that we like to compare ourselves to spend at least 2.5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on research and development. Israel and South Korea spend nearly 5% and both have flourishing tech sectors. There’s a sound reason for businesses and the government to spend billions […]

There is so much AI news each week it was taking over our digital pānui so we decided to pull that content out into a seperate post each week.  There were three big news themes in the AI news this week – we’re all going to die, it’s creating demand for computer chips and we […]

An industry partnership aimed at advancing digital twin technology has launched mirroring efforts across the Tasman to explore how digital twins can be used. Digital twins are virtual representations of real-world objects, from buildings, hospital and electricity grids to complicated machinery and factories. They are seen as having huge scope to improve efficiency when it […]

A team of University of Canterbury scientists have set out to develop algorithms to inform biosecurity efforts to tackle biological threats that could have devastating impacts on the environment – and the primary sector. Algorithms being developed by the Canterbury team will present possible outbreak scenarios, rather than just one that’s the “most statistically likely” […]

Lina Khan, the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission has attracted a lot of attention for her New York Times opinion piece on the regulatory issues posed by the rise of generative AI. The “trajectory of the Web 2.0 era”, Khan points out, was not inevitable. The domination of the web by a handful […]