AI/Machine Learning

Record companies are suing music apps for copying classic songs in a legal battle that will shape the future of generative AI

- July 3, 2024 3 MIN READ

Last month, several major record labels filed copyright infringement lawsuits in US courts against the makers of two generative AI music apps, Suno and Udio. The labels allege the AI companies have engaged in copyright infringement by copying many sound recordings belonging to the record labels, and producing outputs very similar to those recordings. The… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

The Tech Council wants more artificial intelligence training for workers support up to 200,000 AI-related jobs by 2030

- July 2, 2024 2 MIN READ

The creative destruction to workplaces wrought by artificial intelligence (AI) could create up to 200,000 jobs to replace those it also takes, according to a new report from the Tech Council of Australia (TCA). While AI has many fearful that they’ll be made redundant, the report, produced in partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn and Workday, argues… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

The National AI Centre’s first startup sprint backs the best in tax, NDIS and making better decisions

- June 25, 2024 2 MIN READ

Dragonfly Thinking, a startup spun out of Australian National University (ANU) using AI to make it easier to think about difficult business and policy problems in an inclusive and intuitive way, has won the inaugural AI Sprint by the National AI Centre. In a sign of how vibrant the nation’s startup sector is when it… Read more »

Accelerator

Here are the 15 amazing AI startups in Build Club’s first cohort – and the winners heading to San Francisco to pitch to US VCs

- June 22, 2024 6 MIN READ

If Build Club founder Annie Liao needs a motto, it should be “Move fast and make things”. This week, the 15 artificial intelligence (AI) startups accepted into the inaugural Build Club Accelerator graduated after an intensive six weeks, culminating in Monday’s Demo Day. Liao set out to create an accelerator program backing technical AI engineers… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

A photographer trolled an AI art competition with a real photo – and won

- June 21, 2024 2 MIN READ

A photographer disqualified after winning an AI image competition with a real photo says playing a trick on the judges proved “nature still outdoes the machine”. Miles Astray’s photo ‘FLAMINGONE’ won the People’s Vote and a Jury Award after he entered it into the artificial intelligence category of the 1839 Awards for photography this month, but was… Read more »

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Accelerator

ARM Hub and MTPConnect collaborate on a new AI accelerator for biomed startups

- June 17, 2024 2 MIN READ

The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub and MTPConnect have teamed up to launch the Biomedical AI Sprints Accelerator (BASA) so biomedical startup can harness the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI).  BASA will offer $25,000-50,000 in matched funding and upskill high-growth startup teams in using AI and data analytics, giving them access to… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Apple put AI into its series 15 phones and M1 chip Macs, but please don’t call it artificial intelligence

- June 11, 2024 3 MIN READ

Apple has announced how it will integrate generative artificial intelligence into its iPhones, iPads and Macs, following months of speculation. The company’s AI system, dubbed Apple Intelligence – the company has resisted using the words artificial intelligence – was announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, California on Tuesday. Already lagging behind… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

Sapia.ai opens its machine learning models with strategic API program

- June 10, 2024 2 MIN READ

Jobs interview platform Sapia.ai is opening up its machine learning models as part of a strategic API program, launching on AWS Marketplace. The move will give companies around the world the ability to develop their own workplace-based AI applications, using the data insights Sapia.ai has gathered from more than four million job interviews involving 20… Read more »

Mira Murati
AI/Machine Learning

Her gets real: GPT-4o takes faking human emotion to the next level

- May 20, 2024 4 MIN READ

Last week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more natural engagement with AI. According to the demonstration video, it can have voice conversations with users in near real-time, exhibiting human-like personality and behaviour. This… Read more »

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AI/Machine Learning

Generative AI startup Leonardo is being used to make deepfake celebrity porn

- April 10, 2024 2 MIN READ

The text-to-image generator developed by Sydney startup Leonardo Ai has been used to create deepfake porn of celebrities. Journalist Emanuel Maiberg at US tech news website 404 Media reported that they had used prompt suggestions for Leonardo found on Reddit “and was able to produce nonconsensual sexual images of celebrities instantly”. He found a Telegram community… Read more »