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ANU taps into AI The ANU has announced an ambitious 10-year program to drive an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in Australia. The program will bring together the best researchers from around the world and a range of disciplines to tackle complex problems around AI, data and technology and managing their impact on humanity. The expansion will be led by one of the world’s top technologists, Professor Genevieve Bell, who recently joined ANU from Intel. Under the expansion, Professor Bell will lead a new Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Institute, to be known as the 3A Institute. ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said this institute will drive innovation, research and policy responses. “It isn’t just about engineering
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and computer science, it’s also about anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, public policy and many other disciplines,” he said. Professor Bell said there was a critical set of questions to be answered around autonomy, agency and assurance if the world is to meet challenges of future technology. “We, as humans, are simultaneously terrified, optimistic and ultimately ambivalent about what it’s going to be like,” she said. “How are we going to feel in a world where autonomous agents are doing things and we aren’t? How are we going to be safe in this world? “We will be looking closely at risk, indemnity, privacy, trust – things that fall under this broad term ‘assurance’.”
Free school devices The ACT Government has released a request for quote to an industry panel of suppliers for what will be approximately 14,600 devices in the first year of delivery, rolling out early in the 2018 school year. The ACT Government pledged during the 2016 election to supply free electronic devices for all ACT public high school and college students. The government has announced a number of key decisions pertaining to the program which include the deadline of 2019 for devices to be provided to all eligible students. Alongside that, all devices will be Google Chromebooks and will be replaced after three years at the end of their optimal life.
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Barrine Drive partially reopens
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A section of road in West Basin that has been closed for the construction of a new lakeside public park has been temporarily reopened as a oneway street, and will remain so until the end of Floriade on 15 October. The section of Barrine Drive, south of Albert Street in West Basin, will be opened in one direction to allow vehicles to travel from Commonwealth Park into West Basin. Floriade organisers have emphasised that parking at West Basin and Commonwealth Park will be limited.
The 2017 Restaurant & Catering Awards for Excellence have recognised Bookplate, located at the National Library of Australia, as the ACT Café of the Year. Local business woman Tracy Keeley, took out a total of four awards in the Café Dining and Small Caterer categories for her two establishments, Bookplate and Pollen.