Adelaide to open a machine learning institute

The South Australian government and the University of Adelaide will co-invest in a new machine learning "institute" to open next year. The institute will operate from the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site and eventually be home to 200 "creative thinkers, researchers and start-ups". The state government said it would invest $7.1 million towards establishing the institute "with $1.5 million prioritised for defence capability research projects". "The institute will dedicate a minimum of 18,000 research hours over the five-year agreement for projects which help the government to improve productivity, efficiency and service delivery for South Australians," it said. The defence work isn't explained aside from a stated aim to "build new AI-enabled defence capabilities".