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We are now an NZ Tech affiliate member

We are excited to announce that we have joined NZTech as an affiliate member alongside Canterbury Tech, the Digital Health Association (DHA), Manawa Tech, the NZ Hi-Tech Awards, Tech Leaders Executive, the Technology Investment Network (TIN), Trust Alliance NZ Inc, NZGDA, and TUANZWe looking forward to engaging with other Affiliates and across the NZ Tech Alliance in pursuit of our purpose.For information on our activities visit our website....

A/NZ and responsible AI

In Australia they are proposing mandatory safeguards for high-risk AI use, with Ed Husic MP launching the interim response to the Safe and Responsible AI in Australia consultation earlier this month, welcomed by the Tech Council of Australia, and so it was quite timely that in New Zealand our discussion paper promotes responsible AI innovation and adoption looking specifically at the unique challenges and opportunities presented to our Small and Mediu...

Responsible AI discussion paper launch

Watch last week's launch of our Responsible AI discussion paper where a highly engaged audience asked great questions of the panel after a brief overview of the paper from Helen Lu. Session Chair Paul Brown did a great job enabling a great discussion & of course the panelists were invaluable in sharing their knowledge & perspectives.The paper addresses the unique challenges & opportunities for Aotearoa NZ, provides up-to-date ethical principles for&...

AI in the survey and spatial sector

We contributed some thoughts on the potential of AI in the survey & spatial sector as well as insights around Dos and Don'ts for the September Survey and Spatial New Zealand magazine (see Page 10 & 11)...

Webinar - AI in Health

A recording of our October webinar with Kevin Ross, CEO - Precision Driven Health, Prof Sandhya Samarasinghe - Lincoln University (NZ) and Professor Gill Dobbie from The University of Auckland is available here....

Webinar - Large Language Models

A recording from our August webinar focused on large language models with Paul Geertsema - The University of Auckland, Johan Barthelemy - NVIDIA, and Albert Bifet - Artificial Intelligence Institute is now available here....

2023 election results

We welcome a number of new faces to the Board for 2023/24 following the 2023 elections and would also like to thank our members for their participation in the election this year. Our new Board members include Nuwan Gunasekara (University of Waikato), Thomas Li (University of Canterbury), Yun Sing Koh (University of Auckland), Jesse Wood (Victoria University of Wellington), Heitor Gomes (Victoria University of Wellington), Varvara Vetrova (University of Canterbury) and Tangata Whenau represe...

Women in AI Awards Finalists

It is fantastic to see Association member Mahla Nejati from The University of Auckland in the list of Finalists for the 2023 APAC Women in AI Awards. Congratulations to Mahla and all the other finalists.Our Executive Director Jannat Maqbool is a member of the NZ Advisory Panel and also a Judge for the awards again this year and has been impressed with the caliber of candidates applying #AI to some of the worlds most pressing challenges and the focus on&nbs...

Discussion paper release

Today we released a discussion paper addressing the policy implications of emerging large language models such as #ChatGPT. Access it here....

AI futures in Australia and New Zealand

Co-Chair of the Association Professor Albert Bifet was interviewed recently as a follow up to our discussion paper release for his thoughts on the future of #AI across Australia and New Zealand. Read the article here....

Presentation recordings now available

Visit the Annual Conference website to access presentation recordings from the 2022 Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association conference. ...

Check out our 2022 Conference Wrap Up Video!

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The Call for Abstracts for the 2022 Conference is out!

Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Members are invited to submit an Abstract for the 2022 Artificial Intelligence Researchers Annual Conference to be hosted by the University of Canterbury in collaboration with Platinum sponsor the Artificial Intelligence Institute.Organising committee - Albert Bifet Richard Green Gill Dobbie Mengjie Zhang Julian Maclaren Paul Geertsema Dr Rory Clifford Daniel Wilson and Phil MOUROTFor...

We have launched our webinar series

In our inaugural webinar we heard about NVIDIA Omniverse™, a multi-GPU-enabled open platform for 3D design collaboration and real-time physically accurate simulation, featuring NVIDIA artificial intelligence (AI) advancements that interweave the real and the virtual, and the Artificial Intelligence Institute's Accelerated WEKA project, which provides an accessible entry point for using GPUs in well-known WEKA algorithms by integrating open-source RAPIDS libraries. ...

2022 Election results

The new Board met for the first time in early July with representation from across the membership. Executive Committee roles were also confirmed at this meeting. The Executive Committee roles include two Co-Chairs, two Deputy Chairs, a Secretary, Treasurer, Tangata Whenua representative, and Diversity Chair.  For information on the new Board click here....

Te Ara Paerangi - Future Pathways submission

As you may be aware the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment recently released a Green Paper as the first step in the Te Ara Paerangi - Future Pathways Programme. The Te Ara Paerangi – Future Pathways Programme is focused on creating a modern, future-focused research system for New Zealand. A system that is adaptable for a rapidly changing future, resilient to changes, and connected; to itself, to industry, to public sector users of research, and internationally.The Green ...

Whitepaper released on the AI opportunity for Aotearoa NZ

Following a collaborative and consultative approach we are now in a position to release a whitepaper as the first activity of the new Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association. Prepared under the leadership of Professor Albert Bifet, Professor Richard Green, Dr Daniel Wilson and Professor Mengjie Zhang, the whitepaper discusses current AI capabilities in Aotearoa New Zealand and offers recommendations for establishing Aotearoa New Zealand as a research centre of excellence and trust in AI...

We are live!

Our new website and online presence across social media is live.Add the website as a favourite and follow us on LinkedIn and/or Twitter and/or subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay connected. ...