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| Sep 5, 2024 | Ex-OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever’s 10-Employee Startup Has Raised $1B | OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever speaks at a TED AI conference in San Francisco on October 17, 2023. GLENN CHAPMAN/AFP via Getty Images
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an A.I. startup launched by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever... |
| Sep 4, 2024 | Ex-OpenAI chief scientist raises $1B for startup with only 10 employees | |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Canberra steps into the AI arena without a policy framework | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
A partnership with Microsoft will trial the use of AI within the Australian Public Service, even while safety policies are still being developed.
The Australian Public Service will become one of the ... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Ocean Biomedical (NASDAQ: OCEA) Announces $1 Million Falk Award for Malaria Drug Candidate Addressing Evolving Resistance to Artemisinin-Based Therapeutics to Chief Scientist Dr. Jonathan Kurtis | |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Australia Is Adapting Fast to a Generative AI World | Generative AI has been the talk of the business and technology world since the explosion of ChatGPT onto the market in late 2022. In Australia, there’s been a frantic whole-of-nation effort to understand the implications for business, gover... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Gov starts to consider Australian AI regulation | The government has called for views on how it can support the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Interested parties have until late July to submit assessments on the best methods for tackling growing AI capabilities and wh... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Ex-Salesforce chief scientist launches AI-focused VC house with $50m debut fund | Former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher has officially launched venture capital firm AIX Ventures with a $50m d |
| Oct 29, 2020 | STEM cadetships for women: Why $25 million is a small investment compared to the scale of the challenges to be overcome | Source: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.
An overarching criticism of the recent federal budget is that it overlooked the workers hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic — namely, women. However, the budget includes one promising, albeit small, initia... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | We need to help unemployed postgraduates start businesses, says CSIRO chief scientist Cathy Foley | CSIRO chief scientist Cathy Foley. Source: YouTube.
Universities and other research organisations in Australia have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In May, a group led by Australia’s chief scientist Alan Finkel forecasted severe imp... |
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| Jun 5, 2018 | Remember Turnbull’s 2015 ‘ideas boom’? We’re still only part way there | By Sean Gallagher, Beth Webster and Sarah Maddison, Swinburne University of Technology
In 2015, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull welcomed us to the “ideas boom”, launching a National Innovation and Science Agenda to “drive smart ideas that c... |
| Mar 13, 2018 | What we need from Australia’s new ambassador for women in science | Computer scientist and Computing Education Specialist Dr Nicky Ringland meets with Burwood Girls students. Source: Nicky Ringland.
By Amy L Heffernan, University of Melbourne; Kate Umbers, Western Sydney University, and Sanam Mustafa, Unive... |
| Aug 16, 2017 | Sydney School of Entrepreneurship opens in “wonderfully unprecedented” plan to train the next generation of entrepreneurs | Sydney School of Entrepreneurship chief executive Nick Kaye (left) and Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business John Barilaro. Source: Supplied.
University students across New South Wales will now have free access to an entrepreneursh... |
| Mar 31, 2016 | Australia’s first comprehensive STEM study reveals just how bad the gender gap is | Women are substantially disadvantaged across Australia both in terms of earning capacity and education in STEM fields, Australia’s first comprehensive study in the area reports.
In a new study released by the Office of Chief Scientist, wome... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Why greater gender diversity in science benefits us all | By Pankaj Sah
The World Economic Forum estimated last year that at the current slow rate of progress, it will take until 2133 to close the global gender gap across health, education, economic opportunity and politics.
We clearly need to tak... |
| Mar 3, 2016 | Australia’s Chief Scientist on failure, self-driving cars and the importance of innovation | The government has based its reforms on a 2016 review by chief scientist Alan Finkel.
By Alan Finkel
Below is a transcript of the speech given by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO, at the National Press Club on 2nd March 2016. ... |
| Feb 8, 2016 | Australia’s new chief scientist Alan Finkel on the importance of STEM and being a “techno-optimist” | By Tim Dean, The Conversation
Dr Alan Finkel took over as Australia’s new Chief Scientist on January 25 this year.
He is a respected neuroscientist, engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and was the Chancellor of Monash University from... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | New $2.5 million accelerator with big corporate partners aims to drive innovative STEM education in Australia | Twenty tech entrepreneurs working on a range of innovative STEM ventures have been chosen for a new $2.5 million accelerator program.
Launched by PwC, the 21st Century Minds Accelerator program is focusing on startups and founders that are ... |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Australia’s outgoing Chief Scientist says we’re good but we can be better | Today marks Professor Ian Chubb’s final day as Australia’s Chief Scientist.
It’s a position he’s held for almost five years, during some of Australia’s most turbulent political times. He’s served under four prime ministers and six science m... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Five ways to kickstart the STEM economy in Australia | The word “innovation” has taken on a new currency in the Australian research sector. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced major plans to revitalise the research sector, deliver a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathemati... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | To deliver more high-growth startups Australia needs an entrepreneurship system | “Governments can’t conjure up entrepreneurs. But they can set the conditions under which entrepreneurs flourish,” says Australia’s chief economist Mark Cully.
Cully this week released the government’s sixth Australian Innovation System Repo... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Aussie unis “late to the party’ and failing to teach entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship needs to be taught through practical and experiential university programs or Australia risks falling further behind in the global innovation race, Spike Innovation director Colin Kinner says.
Kinner is the author of a new r... |
| May 29, 2015 | Compulsory science and maths is great but there’s more to be done | Federal Education and Training Minister Christopher Pyne today met with his state counterparts to confirm his proposal to make science and maths compulsory for year 11 and 12students. This is to be applauded by the scientific community as a... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | New research confirms what startups have long been agitating for: Australia needs more STEM graduates | There is a shortage of graduates with science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, according to the Australian government – confirming what local startups have long been saying.
According to the Office of the Chief Scientist, bu... |
| Apr 21, 2015 | Why a national science strategy is good for Australia | This week saw the welcome news that the federal government has committed to pursuing a national science strategy.
Following a meeting on Monday with the Commonwealth Science Council, of which I am a member, the Minister for Industry and Sci... |
| Dec 8, 2014 | Can the right conversations change the world? | There’s no shortage of statistics informing us that science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills will drive Australia’s innovation levels.
In early December, Benchmarking Australian Science, Technology, Engineering and Mat... |
| Jul 4, 2012 | SparkTruck Is A Force For STEM Education On Wheels | Budget cuts and bureaucracy have kept engineering equipment from our nation’s schools, so a scrappy Stanford team is taking a truck chock-full of fun tools to the students themselves. SparkTruck literally parks a engineering bench outside o... |
| New government report reveals fears that Australia will fall behind on AI | Australian Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate our news feeds, the Albanese government has launched two papers exploring the ethical future of AI in Aust... |