Artificial Intelligence helping Kiwis every day: NZTech

NZTech CEO Graeme Muller says New Zealanders are engaging with artificial intelligence (AI) everyday, probably without even realising it. Muller made the comments on the eve of the launch of the New Zealand AI Forum in Wellington, describing AI as "the fastest growing impactful technology spreading the globe." The forum was announced in February with further details being provided in late May, including the naming of Stu Christie, investment manager at the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, as its chairman. NZTech says dozens of New Zealand's leading tech companies are joining the forum, which has been initiated via a collaboration between NZTech, the government and AI tech leaders. According to Muller, one of the most recent examples of AI in New Zealand is the chat function on the Air New Zealand website that helps with ticket bookings: users of that function are chatting with AI not a human, Muller said.