Artificial Intelligence

D61+ LIVE Answers: Artificial Intelligence and its impact on your future workplace

The Australian workplace is changing more rapidly than ever before, driven by a combination of elements that enable a smarter, faster, and more powerful future. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is one such foundation, with digital technology transforming once time-consuming and manual tasks into speedy, safe, and efficient processes that need little to no...

This common action is putting you at risk of being deepfaked

As we move further into the Computer Age, fake news, digital deceit and widespread use of social media are having a profound impact on every element of society, from swaying elections and manipulating science-proven facts, to encouraging racial bias and exploiting women. Once a topic only discussed in computer research labs, deepfakes were catapulted into...

Online match-making tool promoting a circular economy goes national

We create more than 2 billion tonnes of waste annually, with that number expected to grow to 3.4 billion by 2050. According to the World Bank, the majority (33%) of worldwide waste is disposed in an open dump, while 25.2% is discarded in unspecified (opposed to sanitary or controlled) landfill. Australia generates 67 million of...

AFP using AI innovation to protect investigators from abhorrent material

‘The more data the better’ is a recurring request from organisations when it comes to mining data sets to solve complex problems. However, in unique cases, being exposed to too much data can be harmful to one’s mental health when working on the data-driven front line. The Australian Federal Police are tasked with identifying abhorrent...

Why we’re vaccinating algorithms against adversarial attacks

Is the image on the left that of a temple, or of a large bird native to Africa? According to a machine learning model that’s been duped by an adversarial attack, it’s an ostrich. As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning across our society and economy is increasing, so too is the...

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence lease management system receives multiple accolades at iAwards

Australia’s first artificial intelligence-powered lease management platform received multiple commendations at the NSW iAwards late last week, with the program billed to revolutionise the lease administration procedure. Developed in partnership with LeaseInfo and CSIRO’s Data61 with support from the NSW Government, ‘Accurait‘ uses text classification tools, optical character recognition (OCR) and LeaseInfo’s own metadata to...

Data61 Robotics team has six papers accepted at international conference

Australia is fast becoming a leader in international robotics innovation, with a team from CSIRO’s Data61 having six papers accepted at this year’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Represented by Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group Leader Fred Pauling and Cyber Physical Systems Research Director Dr. Sue Keay, the studies detail a variety of...

Data economy means more change to Australia than the internet

In his latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, CSIRO’s Data61 CEO Adrian Turner looks at the 15-year rise of platform companies going unchecked, and why it’s time for Australia to take the lead in setting an ethical framework for data collection. Data economy means more change to Australia than the internet It seems we’re...

Bees with backpacks fly into schools

From apples and almonds, to coffee and cocoa, one third of the food we consume each day relies on bees and their pollination services. Bees are the world’s most prolific pollinators of food crops, and the estimated value of pollination services from managed honey bees in Australia ranges up to $6 billion a year. These busy...

Australia’s love of city-dwelling could become an export strength

Below is CSIRO’s Data61 CEO Adrian Turner’s latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, which looks at how Australia’s love of cities might translate into new digital exports. Australia’s love of city-dwelling could become an export strength Israeli philosopher and author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, posited that humans succeeded as a species because of...