Artificial Intelligence; An Expert View

Professor Kok-Leong Ong from RMIT University, talks to Craig Francis about Artificial Intelligence (AI); what it actually means, what are some of the benefits to mankind, why some of the world’s leading developers of AI are concerned about the rate of advances in technology, and what regulators plan to do about it.

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Time-bomb to catastrophe

Allowing rural-residential housing on the edge of towns is putting lives at risk from bushfires according to Professor Michael Buxton from RMIT University. In this podcast from “A Newsman and his Music” (20 January 2020), he tells Colin Tyrus that the failure to enforce recommendations from previous bushfire Royal Commissions is a “time-bomb of catastrophic proportions”.

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