AI uses and functions have also shifted over the past 12 months as technological development, regulation and social factors have shaped what’s possible. Here’s where we’re at, and what might come in 2024.
This article published in The Conversation describes ‘data poisoning’, symptoms of poisoning, antidotes and strategies against technology.
Placing the increased usage of chatbot apps such as Woebot in the context of enduring problems in the mental health system that were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the article explains that young people are seeking artificial intelligence chatbots to support their mental health challenges.
Our study of more than 8,000 ads served more than 20,000 times in people’s Facebook feeds has found many green claims are vague, meaningless or unsubstantiated and consumers are potentially being deceived.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has introduced legislation that will require smart TV manufacturers to ensure we can easily find local broadcasters – including ABC, SBS and the commercial networks – when we turn on our TVs.
The final instalment in our Electronics < > Ecologies series, MANUFACTURING brings together scholars in geography, media and labour studies to discuss the growth in electronics and chip manufacturing in East and South East Asia.
For the past years, we have faced a repeated experience when presenting our work on prisoners training AI. Scholars in the fields of critical data and algorithm studies start nodding, as if they already knew what we were going to say. What else is prison data labor than an effort to harness the prison-industrial complex in the service of the global data extraction machinery?
The deepening integration of the technology sector with the FIRE sector—finance, insurance, real estate—is a profoundly consequential development in modern capitalism. Separately these sectors are among the most powerful forces in society, with access to untold wealth and the ability to act like private forms of governance. When working together, they boost each other to new levels of dominance. Going by terms like fintech, insurtech, and proptech, these interdisciplinary enterprises have acquired an inescapable influence over our lives, even if we only notice a fraction of the ways they interact with us. These terms are large umbrellas under which vast arrays of systems are clustered, each one aiming to deploy digital solutions that serve the needs of technological and financial capital.
A new research project conceived at the ADM+S Hackathon has been awarded $10,000 to develop an AI co-pilot strategy to reduce human and machine bias in large language models such as ChatGPT.
Since 2016, tech-savvy regions and nations across Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America have been establishing regulations targeting AI technologies. Australia is lagging behind, still currently investigating the possibility of such rules.
Researchers from theADM+S Centre to collaborate on projects that have received a total of $2.1 million in research funding under the ARC Discovery Project scheme announced this week.
Insomnia is not just a personal issue that affects an individual’s health and wellbeing. It’s a public health issue, affecting public safety. It’s a socioeconomic issue, as poorer sleep is linked to a lower education and income. And, increasingly, it’s a commercial issue.
The third instalment in our Electronics < > Ecologies series, ENERGY foregrounds the work of engineers and activists influencing the trajectory of resource use in today’s tech industry.
A new report by the First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group, released today, proposes a series of practical strategies to the Australian government to reduce the digital divide for First Nations Australians, particularly those living in remote communities and homelands.
RMIT academic Dr T.J. Thomson has been awarded the International Visual Literacy Association’s Distinguished Researcher Award at their annual conference on 7 October 2023 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kieran Hegarty devles into the transformation of the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium.
Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. This article looks at how our access to information has changed through the decades – and where it might lead as advanced AI and Google Search become increasingly entwined.
The second event in the ELECTRONICS < > ECOLOGIES series for ADM+S, WASTE will explore the material discards that attend each step of the supply chain for computational devices.