The National Artificial Intelligence Centre has been established within CSIRO's data and digital specialist arm Data61, Minister for Science and Technology Melissa Price announced on Tuesday. Bringing disruption and innovation, AI technologies are forecast to contribute more than $20 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Australian Stela Solar, former global director of AI solutions at Microsoft, is returning from the United States to lead the new centre. "Stela has the vision and industry knowledge to work with CSIRO to continue bridging the gap between industry and our world-leading AI specialists," CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall said. The minister said the new centre would position Australia as global leader in AI technology, harnessing talent and resources to drive early adoption of AI across the economy.

Enthusiastic and inquisitive healthcare professionals are significantly excited for healthtech summits taking place around the world. Perhaps when it is about rapidly evolving technologies influencing healthcare operations like robotics in healthcare. Lately, the introduction of artificial intelligence has considerably fueled surgical robots and other robotic applications in the healthcare industry. Thus, concerns relating to the future of healthcare and scrutinization of past healthtech events are analysed in these healthtech summits. Here are some of the most helpful healthtech summits listed that cordially invite healthcare enthusiasts to join.

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity linking (EL), when candidate entities are reranked according to the context they appear in. All datasets for training and evaluating models for EL consist of convenience samples, such as news articles and tweets, that propagate the prior probability bias of the entity distribution towards more frequently occurring entities. It was previously shown that the performance of the EL systems on such datasets is overestimated since it is possible to obtain higher accuracy scores by merely learning the prior. To provide a more adequate evaluation benchmark, we introduce the ShadowLink dataset, which includes 16K short text snippets annotated with entity mentions. We evaluate and report the performance of popular EL systems on the ShadowLink benchmark. The results show a considerable difference in accuracy between more and less common entities for all of the EL systems under evaluation, demonstrating the effects of prior probability bias and entity overshadowing.

In the decade since 2010, successes in artificial intelligence have been at the forefront of computer science and technology, and vector space models have solidified a position at the forefront of artificial intelligence. At the same time, quantum computers have become much more powerful, and announcements of major advances are frequently in the news. The mathematical techniques underlying both these areas have more in common than is sometimes realized. Vector spaces took a position at the axiomatic heart of quantum mechanics in the 1930s, and this adoption was a key motivation for the derivation of logic and probability from the linear geometry of vector spaces. Quantum interactions between particles are modelled using the tensor product, which is also used to express objects and operations in artificial neural networks. This paper describes some of these common mathematical areas, including examples of how they are used in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in automated reasoning and natural language processing (NLP). Techniques discussed include vector spaces, scalar products, subspaces and implication, orthogonal projection and negation, dual vectors, density matrices, positive operators, and tensor products. Application areas include information retrieval, categorization and implication, modelling word-senses and disambiguation, inference in knowledge bases, and semantic composition. Some of these approaches can potentially be implemented on quantum hardware. Many of the practical steps in this implementation are in early stages, and some are already realized. Explaining some of the common mathematical tools can help researchers in both AI and quantum computing further exploit these overlaps, recognizing and exploring new directions along the way.

Utilization of classification latent space information for downstream reconstruction and generation is an intriguing and a relatively unexplored area. In general, discriminative representations are rich in class-specific features but are too sparse for reconstruction, whereas, in autoencoders the representations are dense but have limited indistinguishable class-specific features, making them less suitable for classification. In this work, we propose a discriminative modeling framework that employs manipulated supervised latent representations to reconstruct and generate new samples belonging to a given class. Unlike generative modeling approaches such as GANs and VAEs that aim to model the data manifold distribution, Representation based Generations (ReGene) directly represent the given data manifold in the classification space. Such supervised representations, under certain constraints, allow for reconstructions and controlled generations using an appropriate decoder without enforcing any prior distribution. Theoretically, given a class, we show that these representations when smartly manipulated using convex combinations retain the same class label. Furthermore, they also lead to the novel generation of visually realistic images. Extensive experiments on datasets of varying resolutions demonstrate that ReGene has higher classification accuracy than existing conditional generative models while being competitive in terms of FID.

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables machines to learn from human experience, adjust to new inputs, and perform human-like tasks. AI is progressing rapidly and is transforming the way businesses operate, from process automation to cognitive augmentation of tasks and intelligent process/data analytics. However, the main challenge for human users would be to understand and appropriately trust the result of AI algorithms and methods. In this paper, to address this challenge, we study and analyze the recent work done in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods and tools. We introduce a novel XAI process, which facilitates producing explainable models while maintaining a high level of learning performance. We present an interactive evidence-based approach to assist human users in comprehending and trusting the results and output created by AI-enabled algorithms. We adopt a typical scenario in the Banking domain for analyzing customer transactions. We develop a digital dashboard to facilitate interacting with the algorithm results and discuss how the proposed XAI method can significantly improve the confidence of data scientists in understanding the result of AI-enabled algorithms.

Most weed species can adversely impact agricultural productivity by competing for nutrients required by high-value crops. Manual weeding is not practical for large cropping areas. Many studies have been undertaken to develop automatic weed management systems for agricultural crops. In this process, one of the major tasks is to recognise the weeds from images. However, weed recognition is a challenging task. It is because weed and crop plants can be similar in colour, texture and shape which can be exacerbated further by the imaging conditions, geographic or weather conditions when the images are recorded. Advanced machine learning techniques can be used to recognise weeds from imagery. In this paper, we have investigated five state-of-the-art deep neural networks, namely VGG16, ResNet-50, Inception-V3, Inception-ResNet-v2 and MobileNetV2, and evaluated their performance for weed recognition. We have used several experimental settings and multiple dataset combinations. In particular, we constructed a large weed-crop dataset by combining several smaller datasets, mitigating class imbalance by data augmentation, and using this dataset in benchmarking the deep neural networks. We investigated the use of transfer learning techniques by preserving the pre-trained weights for extracting the features and fine-tuning them using the images of crop and weed datasets. We found that VGG16 performed better than others on small-scale datasets, while ResNet-50 performed better than other deep networks on the large combined dataset.

While knowledge graphs contain rich semantic knowledge of various entities and the relational information among them, temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) further indicate the interactions of the entities over time. To study how to better model TKGs, automatic temporal knowledge graph completion (TKGC) has gained great interest. Recent TKGC methods aim to integrate advanced deep learning techniques, e.g., attention mechanism and Transformer, to boost model performance. However, we find that compared to adopting various kinds of complex modules, it is more beneficial to better utilize the whole amount of temporal information along the time axis. In this paper, we propose a simple but powerful graph encoder TARGCN for TKGC. TARGCN is parameter-efficient, and it extensively utilizes the information from the whole temporal context. We perform experiments on three benchmark datasets. Our model can achieve a more than 42% relative improvement on GDELT dataset compared with the state-of-the-art model. Meanwhile, it outperforms the strongest baseline on ICEWS05-15 dataset with around 18.5% fewer parameters.

As consensus across the various published AI ethics principles is approached, a gap remains between high-level principles and practical techniques that can be readily adopted to design and develop responsible AI systems. We examine the practices and experiences of researchers and engineers from Australia's national scientific research agency (CSIRO), who are involved in designing and developing AI systems for a range of purposes. Semi-structured interviews were used to examine how the practices of the participants relate to and align with a set of high-level AI ethics principles that are proposed by the Australian Government. The principles comprise: Privacy Protection & Security, Reliability & Safety, Transparency & Explainability, Fairness, Contestability, Accountability, Human-centred Values, and Human, Social & Environmental Wellbeing. The insights of the researchers and engineers as well as the challenges that arose for them in the practical application of the principles are examined. Finally, a set of organisational responses are provided to support the implementation of high-level AI ethics principles into practice.

As many fine-tuned pre-trained language models~(PLMs) with promising performance are generously released, investigating better ways to reuse these models is vital as it can greatly reduce the retraining computational cost and the potential environmental side-effects. In this paper, we explore a novel model reuse paradigm, Knowledge Amalgamation~(KA) for PLMs. Without human annotations available, KA aims to merge the knowledge from different teacher-PLMs, each of which specializes in a different classification problem, into a versatile student model. The achieve this, we design a Model Uncertainty--aware Knowledge Amalgamation~(MUKA) framework, which identifies the potential adequate teacher using Monte-Carlo Dropout for approximating the golden supervision to guide the student. Experimental results demonstrate that MUKA achieves substantial improvements over baselines on benchmark datasets. Further analysis shows that MUKA can generalize well under several complicate settings with multiple teacher models, heterogeneous teachers, and even cross-dataset teachers.