Artificial intelligence and Australia's industries of the future - CSIROscope

This speech was given by Dr Larry Marshall at the AFR Innovation Summit on Monday 30 July 2018. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the Traditional Owners of the land that we are on today, and pay my respect to their Elders past and present. It's great to be back at the AFR Innovation Summit, and thank you to our morning speakers for setting a strong focus on the power of innovation to shape our future. Before I was the Chief Executive of Australia's national science agency, I was an inventor, an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist and of course a kid. I grew up in a time where people were obsessed with the power of the computer and its ability to replace humans, our parents told us to study computer programing.