Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
Toby Walsh is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW, and Research Leader at Data61 (formerly NICTA) in the Optimisation Research Group where he leads the Algorithmic Decision Theory project. Data61 is Australia's Centre of Excellence for ICT Research.
He has been Editor-in-Chief of two of the main journals in AI: the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and AI Communications. He is currently Associate Editor of one of the leading journals in computer science, the Journal of the ACM covering the area of Artificial Intelligence
Who is Sam Altman, OpenAI's wunderkind ex-CEO – and why does it matter that he got sacked?
Nov 21, 2023 04:00 am UTC| Technology
On Friday, OpenAIs high-flying chief executive Sam Altman was unexpectedly fired by the companys board. Co-founder and chief technology officer Greg Brockman was also removed as the board president, after which he promptly...
The US just issued the world’s strongest action yet on regulating AI. Here’s what to expect
Nov 01, 2023 07:12 am UTC| Technology
On Monday US President Joe Biden released a wide ranging and ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) catapulting the US to the front of conversations about regulating AI. In doing so, the US is leap...
Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech's AI race will transform search
Feb 10, 2023 06:07 am UTC| Technology
Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps for some advice. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to...
Can machines invent things without human help? These AI examples show the answer is ‘yes’
Dec 08, 2022 10:44 am UTC| Technology
The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning of computing. Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote whats generally considered the first...
Nov 25, 2022 14:43 pm UTC| Technology
In a rare piece of good news from Meta, artificial intelligence researchers at the company have just announced a scientific breakthrough. Their AI program named Cicero can now play the board game Diplomacy at a human...
Apr 23, 2022 08:25 am UTC| Technology
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system the amount of disorder only ever increases. In other words, the amount of order only ever decreases. Privacy is similar to entropy. Privacy is...
Holding big tech companies to account: do their employees have the power?
Aug 25, 2018 07:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
When it comes to the tech giant Google, secret plans to launch a new search service in China prompted a furious reaction from more than 1,400 of the companys employees. A staff letter, obtained by Buzzfeed and published...