Artificial intelligence isn’t this looming technological revolution waiting to happen. It’s here, and it’s already making life easier, simpler, and more productive in small and surprising ways.
“It’s not a future technology. Pretty much every industry I can think of is already using AI or is already being disrupted by AI,” Professor Jon Whittle, director of CSIRO’s Data61, says.
However, AI isn’t upending business or the consumer experience. There’s no ceding of control. Instead, AI makes enhancements – sometimes small ones – to functions we perform or challenges we face every day.
Whittle points to several projects Data61 is currently working on to apply AI to real-world problems.
Data61’s recently publicized partnership with Google is helping to tackle the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef by teaching robots to identify the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish. The implications extend beyond the reef.
“You can get insights that you wouldn’t have had before that can go into policy documents, or into documents ocean industries need for their operations and so forth,” Whittle says.
Data61 is also working with industry partners on applying machine learning to identify defects in the manufacturing sector, and thinking about how AI and robotics can transform the agricultural sector from monoculture to polyculture.
Another project directly responds to the billions of dollars spent each year on preventing, managing or recovering from workplace injuries. “We’ve got a tool that we’ve developed that can use cameras in a privacy preserving way that can monitor people moving around – say on a factory floor – and it can identify, for example, if people over a period of time have got bad posture that could potentially lead to an injury down the road,” Whittle says.
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“It’s not a future technology. Pretty much every industry I can think of is already using AI or is already being disrupted by AI,” Professor Jon Whittle, director of CSIRO’s Data61, says.
However, AI isn’t upending business or the consumer experience. There’s no ceding of control. Instead, AI makes enhancements – sometimes small ones – to functions we perform or challenges we face every day.
Whittle points to several projects Data61 is currently working on to apply AI to real-world problems.
Data61’s recently publicized partnership with Google is helping to tackle the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef by teaching robots to identify the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish. The implications extend beyond the reef.
“You can get insights that you wouldn’t have had before that can go into policy documents, or into documents ocean industries need for their operations and so forth,” Whittle says.
Data61 is also working with industry partners on applying machine learning to identify defects in the manufacturing sector, and thinking about how AI and robotics can transform the agricultural sector from monoculture to polyculture.
Another project directly responds to the billions of dollars spent each year on preventing, managing or recovering from workplace injuries. “We’ve got a tool that we’ve developed that can use cameras in a privacy preserving way that can monitor people moving around – say on a factory floor – and it can identify, for example, if people over a period of time have got bad posture that could potentially lead to an injury down the road,” Whittle says.
Continue reading: https://www.afr.com/technology/artificial-intelligence-is-making-big-changes-look-easy-20220520-p5an2y
