http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.airesearchers.nz en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:24:04 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/163294/digital-technologies-reshaping-the-agrifood-landscape/ An in-person opportunity to join a seminar on 23 February 2026 at Lincoln University (NZ) exploring how digital technologies are reshaping the agrifood landscape, with Forbes Elworthy and Paul Windemuller.For more information visit https://www.lincoln.ac.nz/news-and-events/the-digitisation-of-agribusiness-and-the-future-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-agrifood-systems/... Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post163294 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/163293/communication-and-information-commissioner-appointment/ Congratulations to Association Board Member Dr Mahsa McCauley (Mohaghegh) on her appointment as Communication and Information Commissioner for the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO by Hon Hon Erica Stanford MP, Minister of Education.For more information visit https://www.aut.ac.nz/news/celebrating-success/dr-mahsa-mohaghegh-mccauley... Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post163293 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/163292/conference-recordings-now-available/ Visit www.ainz.ai to access photos and recordings from this years conference hosting by Victoria University of Wellington in November. ... Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post163292 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/158027/forget-robot-doctors-whats-holding-back-ai-in-healthcare/ Introduction: Beyond the HypeWe are constantly bombarded with futuristic visions of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Headlines promise AI doctors on our smartphones, robot surgeons performing flawless operations, and algorithms predicting disease years in advance. While the potential is immense, the reality on the ground is far more nuanced, challenging, and in many ways, more interesting than the hype suggests.A recent panel brought together a diverse group of New Zealand experts—spanni... Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post158027 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/152226/september-webinar--digital-ai-and-ag/ Digital AI in agriculture has great potential to help farmers make management decisions based on gathering data, transforming that data into actionable information and then taking those actions. In this session Professor Rains presented work his lab is currently working on to assess multiple data management schemes for storage, analysis and management to track each individual plants growth, crop inputs and field production. Professor Rains also went over some recent work to forecast irrigation b... Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:23:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post152226 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/149080/mid-year-workshop-session-recordings-now-available/ We had a great turnout for our inaugural mid year workshop #AI Research Nexus and now recordings from the following sessions are now live at the event website - OECD AI Principles and New Zealand panel discussionResearch presentationsAI in Education panel discussionWhat is different about data ethics presentation... Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:59:41 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post149080 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/149081/abstracts-now-invited-for-our-november-conference/ We invite Artificial Intelligence Research Association members to participate in the 4th Annual Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Conference, taking place on 17 and 18 November at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.The deadline for abstract submission is 5.00pm, Sunday 31 AugustFor more information visit the conference website.... Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post149081 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/149527/november-conference-abstract-submission-now-open/ The fourth annual Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association conference will be hosted by Te Whiri Kawe | Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington on 17 and 18 November.This annual conference is intended to be the usual meeting point of the artificial intelligence research community with the main goal of the event being to foster discussion around the latest advances in artificial intelligence.We invite Artificial Intelligenc... Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post149527 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/148003/our-new-board/ Taking this opportunity to welcome our 2025/2026 Board and to once again thank outgoing Board members for their contribution over the last 12 or so months. For more information visit our website - www.airesearchers.nz Albert Bifet Richard Green Mengjie Zhang Julian Maclaren Daniel Wilson Fangfang Zhang Dr. Dwain Allan Paul Brown Bing Xue Seyed Reza Shahamiri Thomas H Li Dr Mahsa McCauley (Mohaghegh) Bernhard Pfahringer Nicholas Knowlton Prof Sandhya Samarasinghe Stephen Cranefield Farhad Mehdipo... Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post148003 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/147998/tech-on-the-tree-tops-how-ai-can-protect-forests/ An international team has trained a Siamese Attention U-Net model on Google Earth imagery to spot forest-cover changes automatically—no massive hand-labelled datasets required. The study finds the planet lost 100 million ha of forest between 2000-2022, and the new pipeline can flag the high-risk zones that need urgent protection. New Zealand’s own University of Otago is among the collaborators, putting Kiwi researchers at the centre of this low-cost, scalable tech that could soon monitor Aot... Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post147998