Generative AI is a tool for productivity
If we want to get the productivity gains from AI then we are going to have to teach each other how to use it. At the Blockchain Innovation Hub, our basic thesis is that this technology is bottom up adopted technology. It is not being introduced from the top of an organisation. It is being adopted by us as practitioners, who have specific tasks and we need the technology to make us more productive.
Complying with OPCAT in social care settings
Australia has still to fully implement the international undertaking given more than five years ago when it ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). Ratification obliges countries, among other things, to establish one or more ‘National Preventive Mechanisms’ to organise the monitoring of places of detention. What is a 'place of detention'? Does it extend to social care settings such as locked dementia wards, or places where people in disability settings are subject to restrictive practices that amount to deprivations of liberty?
Beware the Tricks: How Real Estate Agents Exploit Buyers' Cognitive Biases
Buying or selling a property is usually the most significant financial decision of one's lifetime. However, many buyers lack experience with auctions, bidding, and negotiation, putting them at a disadvantage against sellers who have experienced agents working with them. Also, due to lack of experience, buyers are vulnerable to various psychological biases that could negatively affect their decision-making process.
Haste is waste! Is Google’s fear of missing out (FoMO) hurting the holistic development of AI?
In February 2023, Google announced its conversational AI chat service named Bard, which resembles ChatGPT, within three months of ChatGPT's launch in November 2022. Bard has not been released to the public yet, as it is currently being tested with trusted partners. This announcement was made by Google's CEO Sundar Pichai (Roth, 2023).