Vacuum Tubes and Transistors
I’ve had a ham radio license since the late 1960s and observed the transition from vacuum tubes (remember them?) to transistors firsthand. Because we’re allowed to operate high-power transmitters (1,500-watt…
Legal AI Is Taking Off in Australia and Could Shake Up the Private Practice Legal Market
Australia’s private practice legal market is diving headlong into providing AI-assisted legal services. Leading brands such as Clayton Utz, Minter Ellison and Holding Redlich are signalling their first steps into…
Salesforce World Tour Offers Hard-Won Lessons From Complex Australian Digital Transformations
Leaders transforming complex organisations with Salesforce came together at Salesforce’s World Tour Sydney 2024 to share key learnings for IT and other transformation stakeholders on how to manage complex, customer-focused…
MWC Barcelona 2024: Humane Demonstrates Its Wearable Ai Pin
Members of the mobile and telecommunications industries have gathered at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, held Feb. 26-29. The main trends at MWC so far are AI, 5G and…
CSIRO Collaboration Aims to Boost Flagging AI Investment in Australia via Competition
The CSIRO’s National AI Centre, in collaboration with Google Cloud and co-working space Stone & Chalk, has launched a new AI competition in the hope of supporting Australian entrepreneurship around…
Google Enters the Lightweight AI Market With Gemma
Google has released Gemma, a family of AI models based on the same research as Gemini. Developers can’t quite get their hands into the engine of Google Gemini yet, but…
Indeed’s 10 Highest-Paid Tech Skills: Generative AI Tops the List
Despite a turbulent economy and widespread layoffs, tech skills remain in high demand, and not surprisingly, generative AI leads the charge, according to a newly released report from Indeed. Half…
Why Australia’s Banking Sector Should Watch CBA’s ‘Experiments’ With AI Closely
In its first half of the FY24 report, Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced that, through “responsible scaling of AI,” it has already produced more than 50 generative AI use cases.…
Corporate Responsibility in the Age of AI
Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. Almost every company has undertaken AI projects,…
OpenAI’s Sora Generates Photorealistic Videos
OpenAI released on Feb. 15 an impressive new text-to-video model called Sora that can create photorealistic or cartoony moving images from natural language text prompts. Sora isn’t available to the…
