Toby Walsh

Jenny Odell

Author and artist Jenny Odell talks about a world obsessed with productivity and the value of being alone with one’s thoughts.

Drone

AI is going to fundamentally transform how nations wage far. By failing to address it, the defence review leaves Australia unprepared for the future of war.

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UNSW academics and researchers will engage with international writers and thinkers to share ideas, tell stories, and celebrate books.

Toby Walsh, Haris Aziz and Flora Salim

Researchers will develop solutions to tackle challenges relating to drought, environmentally harmful emissions and infectious diseases.

microsoft bing on a computer screen

Users have reported some troubling experiences with the recently released search chatbot.

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Will it give Microsoft a chance to overtake Google in the search space?

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We’re facing a significant advance in AI using methods that are not described in scientific literature, and with datasets restricted to a single for-profit company.

Disks and wheels of an early calculating machine

Ada Lovelace said computers could not invent. But a century later, Alan Turing pointed out inventiveness in machines could be found in their capacity to produce surprising and innovative results.

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The AI leans on a particular tactic for its success. If you knew what it was, beating it would get drastically easier.

Robot dogs

The sentient, murderous humanoid robot is a complete fiction, and may never become reality. But that doesn’t mean we’re safe from autonomous weapons – they are already here.

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