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A thought-provoking article published in The Age this week highlights a conversation that every regional community should be paying attention to.

Last week, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined a coalition of technology leaders in signing an open letter titled Open Weights and American AI Leadership. At first glance, it may appear to be another policy paper aimed at governments. It is much more significant than that.

I recently read this book for the first time, as it is a mainstay in AI, and I had never actually read it when it first appeared.

Last Wednesday we held our latest AI Tooling and Applications workshop at the Ballarat Hackerspace. The speaker was Chris Berry from [Zai Node](https://www.zainode.com), who provide services for private AI hosting. Many industries have strong privacy requirements and privately running your own AI gives assurance that your

AI systems can be powerful tools for your business or community group. However before you invest, the most important question to ask is “will this actually work for us?”. It turns out that’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. The AI marketplace is growing rapidly, with new vendors appearing

Can we trust the algorithms that increasingly run our lives? What happens when those algorithms are used incorrectly, and how much damage can they cause? Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) aims to investigate these questions and issues a warning about the misuse of AI. O’Neil’