AI and big data

In less than a decade, voice assistants and the AI they depend on have become a ubiquitous part of our lives. They help with daily tasks, provide on-route navigation, set reminders, connect us with others, provide companionship in their own right and tell bad jokes. Integral to their design and success is something that is vastly underplayed: their personalities.

With €500 million of the UN’s refugee funds not getting to where it was supposed to go, two Monash researchers recognised a classic optimisation problem.

A collaboration between Monash University’s Grid Innovation Hub, Worley and Palisade Energy Ltd is using machine learning technology to accurately predict wind and solar power to securely integrate them into the national electricity grid.

Monash University researchers have developed a crucial framework to help provide greater transparency into the decision-making processes of artificial intelligence (AI) that control systems such as driverless cars and medical equipment.

Facial recognition systems and the underlying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies connected to them are advancing rapidly – much faster than we can fully understand the risks and dangers these technologies may pose.

Making sense of data in the classroom can promise personalised education, streamlined teaching and easy student evaluation, but should schools pin their hopes on these automated systems?

Intelligent systems can use data to do things they weren’t originally programmed to do. With machine learning, a computer can apply rules to new situations and assess the outcome every time.

Improved pollination can be achieved by understanding the patterns of bee decision-making and movement.

Everywhere you look, gut instinct is giving way to data analytics.

Robots are all around us, quietly working to make our lives easier, safer and more efficient. But they don’t look the same as they did in science fiction-writers’ imaginations.

At Monash, Professor Webb’s bioinformatics work is being used to predict how protease enzymes work in the human body.

Researchers are using satellite images of our planet to create maps that can help predict the spread of bushfires and floods.