Ethics of artificial intelligence critical to its success

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Headline: Ethics of artificial intelligence critical to its success

Auckland – The ethics of artificial intelligence will be critical to the success of AI going forward, a Microsoft leader and a keynote speaker at the AI Day event in Auckland next week says. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI Business, says that given AI has the potential to reshape not just industries and…

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Tech researchers on the cusp of an evolution with machines

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Headline: Tech researchers on the cusp of an evolution with machines

Auckland – The world’s tech experts are on the verge of seeing a major shift in relationships between people and machines, according to a key speaker heading to AI Day in Auckland on March 28. IBM Distinguished Designer Adam Cutler says what interests him the most is the connection between people and machines. “In the past,…

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NZ seen as the world’s living tech lab

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Headline: NZ seen as the world’s living tech lab

Auckland – The announcement of the world’s first self-driving electric air taxi being piloted in Christchurch is just one of the examples of New Zealand becoming a living tech laboratory, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller said today. The Zephyr Airworks aircraft, financed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is a great testimony to responding to a global…

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AI bringing exciting possibilities to NZ

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Headline: AI bringing exciting possibilities to NZ

Christchurch – In Phoenix, Arizona, cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are speaking to digital assistants, with the machines responding. Smartphones and apps can now recognise faces in photos and translate from one language to another, to name a few other examples of artificial intelligence (AI). A leading New Zealand geo-AI company, Orbica,…

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Hopelessly addicted inventor saving native birds with AI

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Christchurch – A researcher described as a hopelessly addicted inventor who is using artificial intelligence (AI) to find native bird predators such as rats, stoats and possums, will be an interesting speaker at AI Day in Auckland on March 28. AI Day speaker Grant Ryan, from Christchurch, is trying to help make NZ predator free with…

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AI provides window to get women into tech

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Headline: AI provides window to get women into tech

Auckland – Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the next wave of technology and New Zealand must present a fresh window to help encourage women into tech roles. Big corporations across every industry, from retail to agriculture, are trying to integrate machine learning into their products and the global thirst for AI is fuelling a heated…

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