Removing AI bias is a critical component in the design and training of AI models, however despite the care taken, it can be incredibly easy for bias to creep in. This is because we often don’t see our own biases and, even at a macro level as a species, we may hold biases we are…
The Australian government has finally banned the installation and use of TikTok on government devices. This has been a long-time coming, with a number of other nations having already banned the use of TikTok on government devices. With TikTok owned by a Chinese company with very close ties to Chinese government, this has long been…
Given that many folks may be observing but not actually using AIs such as GPT3 and GPT4 as yet, I wanted to give a quick example of how these AIs perform in practice. Here’s an example where I asked an AI to write a treatise on the Westworld notion that a human consciousness only requires…
Over the last few days there’s been some significant calls for a slowdown or pause in artificial intelligence research and development, or at least for a pause on public implementations of AI. There’s some significant rationale behind this – with the arrival of GPT4 (which I’ve been extensively experimenting with) we have seen another huge…
There’s been a lot of attention paid to AI ethics over the last few years due to concerns that use of artificial intelligence may further entrench and amplify the impact of subconscious and conscious biases. This is very warranted. Much of the data humans have collected over the last few hundred years is heavily impacted…
There’s been a lot of attention on the potential benefits and risks of artificial intelligence for Australia – with the Department of Industry developing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Framework and the DTA working on formal AI guidelines. However comparative less attention is often placed on building our domestic AI compute capability – the local hardware required…
I’m not given to regularly commenting on global events, such as major wars, through this blog. However, given the active use of advanced technology by both Ukraine and Russia in the current war, I am making a brief exception to comment on the use of advanced technologies, including AI. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has…
One of the primary arguments against artificial intelligence in many processes related to decision-making is lack of explainability. Explainability (also known as interpretability) refers to being able to explain how a machine learning AI model functions to produce a given output in a way that “makes sense” to a human being at an acceptable level….
The DTA’s CEO, Chris Fechner, has advised public servants to be cautious in their use of ChatGPT and other generative AI, as reported by InnovationAus. This is an unsurprising but positive response. While it suggests public servants use caution, it doesn’t close down experimentation and prototyping. Given how recently generative AI became commercially useful and…
I’ve read a few pieces recently, one even quoting an Australian MP, Julian Hill, where claims are made of “catastrophic risks” from AI to humanity. Some of the claims are that “ChatGPT diminishes the ability for humans to think critically”, that “AI will eliminate white collar jobs” or even that “AI will destroy humanity”. Even…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
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