Neural Notes: Competition is good, contradiction is not in the race for global AI standards
In this edition: Aurélie Jacquet, director of Ethical AI Consulting and chair of Standards Australia’s AI Committee talks about the parts of AI implementation that aren't talked about enough. This includes interoperability between systems, global standards and not leading with FOMO.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft outage sparks scam warnings from ACCC and the government
The ACCC's National Anti-Scam Centre has warned small businesses of scams in the wake of the global CrowdStrike and Microsoft outage.
Tech Council predicts 200,000 AI jobs by 2030, warns of skill shortages
A new report from the Tech Council of Australia predicts 200,000 AI jobs by 2030, but only if skill shortages are addressed.
Neural Notes: AI-powered Violet eases ‘sadmin’ burdens for end-of-life care
In this edition of Neural Notes: Violet's AI is designed to provide support and planning in the last 12 to 18 months of life to improve end-of-life care and reduce costs.
Neural Notes: Ex-Microsoft execs secure $5.1 million to blend AI with AR hardware
This week on Neural Notes: SpatialGPT, the Aussie AI startup made up of Microsoft alumni that's focused on hardware just raised over $5 million.
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs brings local AI processing to laptops
Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs inject AI capabilities directly into the hardware, operating locally rather than relying on cloud-based data centers.
Neural Notes: Microsoft absorbs Inflection AI, Nvidia ups the chipsets game
This week: Microsoft taps Inflection AI to head a new division in-house and Nvidia unveils even more powerful chipsets.
Microsoft has removed its biggest barrier for SMEs wanting to use its AI
Microsoft just announced Copilot Pro and removed its minimum seat requirements for Copilot for Microsoft 365, and that's huge for SMEs.
Neural Notes: Lovebombing chatbots, robot CEOs and other cooked AI stories from 2023
This week we tackle some of the weirdest AI stories of 2023, including duelling Groks, Bing AI lovebombing, robot CEOS and Sam Altman's firing drama.
Canva dominated generative AI in Australia in 2023
Canva has reported that its AI tools have been used over 4 billion times. It's hard to not see the unicorn as the AI monarch in Australia.
Amazon Q is an AI chatbot for businesses, and Aussies can test it now
AWS has just announced Amazon Q, a new rival AI chatbot for ChatGPT aimed at enhancing business operations on its platform.
OpenAI’s weird board structure made it easy to fire Sam Altman [Updated]
While we're all talking about why the OpenAI board fired CEO Sam Altman, less has been said about how the company's structure allowed it to happen.