Machine learning

Mike Seymour on stage at TedX Sydney
Giving the world a better face

What happens when technology has a human face? In the future digital assistants will not just be disembodied voices: soon we will be gazing into an emotionally rich, apparently human, 3D digital face.

Image of a bumpy road (source: Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/3518822177)
A bumpy road ahead

Fatal Uber crash highlights both AI and non-technical questions about autonomous vehicles.

Universities on knowledge and how it matters

It’s time to (do more than) talk about knowledge. Universities must take leadership in helping develop students capacity to recognise different kinds of knowledge and work flexibly.

Kai Riemer - Raising the Bar Sydney
The myth of the thinking machine

Why do we believe in the existence of intelligent machines? Why do we believe that computers can do inherently human activities, such as decision-making, better than we do?