It is great to see RMIT School of Computing Technologies at the same rank for CompSci&InfoSys with our good friends HULAT and others in EPS-UC3M #uc3m ! #qsranking

I spent a sabbatical at UC3M visiting Head of CSE Dept Prof Paloma Martinez in 2019. Funny coincidence!

¡Felicidades! 🎉

I gave a talk on Thursday about making AI work for 8 billionaires.

Just leaving these slides here.

I am looking forward to chairing the panel on 'AI in Health' tomorrow!

Thanks to all co-authors
Dr. Scott C. Ritchie Shu Mei Teo Matti Ruuskanen Qiyun Zhu Yoshiki Vázquez B. karin verspoor (professor) Leo Lahti Teemu Niiranen Knight Lab Mike Inouye and those I forgot/couldn't find on Twitter!

Can we please stop anthropomorphizing machines? This robot does NOT 'think for itself'. It has been programmed to do a specific task based on its electronic characteristics.

This tiny swimming robot can think for itself | Science Magazine | H. Adrian Cho science.org/content/articl…

IBM: “plans to use AI to replace 7,800 jobs ... The company is simultaneously expecting to make job reductions.”

And: “managers to immediately report in-person or exit their role”

IOW we need people to do human things but we don’t need too many of them.

edition.cnn.com/2024/01/31/bus…

Blockchain and NFTs are not AI.

Enough said.

#StopAIHype

Does AI have taste buds?! #StopAIhype

Good work from Stanford HAI showing that GPT 4 is not robust enough for use as a medical co-pilot for the following important reasons:

1) Non-deterministic: They found low similarity and high variability in responses to the same question. Jaccard and cosine similarity…

Great article from Khari Johnson Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ Lauren Goode highlighting smthn brewing amongst tech women: How the idea of joining the OpenAI board creates feelings of repulsion.
🔥 insight from @[email protected] on Mastodon Sasha Luccioni, PhD 💻🌎🦋✨🤗 Meredith Whittaker Margaret O'Mara KayFirth-Butterfield
wired.com/story/women-in…

Catch up now on our AIHI Webinar with Prof Enrico Coiera, Prof Karin Verspoor, Prof Farah Magrabi and Dr David Hansen on the National Policy Roadmap for #AI in Healthcare
karin verspoor (professor) David Hansen Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare
youtu.be/DBponizclAE?si… via YouTube

Sam Altman’s voice in AI news coverage this year has been double the combined share of the quoted voice of all 41 female AI experts identified in Time Magazine’s top 100 AI influencers list. It’s hard to believe, it's true.

theguardian.com/global-develop…

AI in health: ball now in DoHAC’s court healthservicesdaily.com.au/ai-in-health-b…

As scientists face a flood of papers, AI developers aim to help | Science | AAAS
Allen Institute for AI karin verspoor (professor) @scopus Michael Carbin Daniel Weld Andrea Chiarelli Petr Knoth 🇺🇦 Eytan Adar Hamed Zamani Iosif Gidiotis
by Jeffrey Brainard
science.org/content/articl…

We are so excited to be launching the National Policy Roadmap for #AI in Healthcare today at the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) AI.Care conference. @Prof Enrico Coiera gets the show on the road. Read it here:
bit.ly/46owPMo

#AI in #healthcare is too big to ignore. Read Australia's new National Policy Roadmap for AI in Healthcare here from Enrico Coiera Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare Macquarie University Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Digital Health CRC karin verspoor (professor) RMIT School of Computing Technologies David Hansen CSIRO
bit.ly/46owPMo

Launching tomorrow!

Stay tuned!
Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Enrico Coiera David Hansen Digital Health CRC Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare Australian Institute of Health Innovation RMIT School of Computing Technologies K Butler-Henderson

Govt plans to spend another $100M on quantum.

CSIRO predicts quantum could contribute $6 billion to national GDP by 2045. However, the Tech Council predict AI could add $115 billion by 2030.

So do we expect 20x investment (=$2B) in AI?

innovationaus.com/govt-uses-secr…

AI in healthcare is too big to ignore! Join us for the AIHI Webinar on: 'Setting the national policy agenda for #AI in healthcare' with Enrico Coiera Farah Magrabi karin verspoor (professor) David Hansen on 29 November. Register now:

page.mq.edu.au/aihi_webinar_2…

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