In a new podcast series, Everyday AI, host Jon Whittle (CSIRO) explores the AI that is already shaping our lives. With the help of expert guests, he explores how AI is used in creative industries, health, conservation, sports and space. Episode 4: AI and citizen science – AI in ecology This episode features Jessie Barry from Cornell University's Macaulay Library and Merlin Bird ID, ichthyologist Mark McGrouther, and Google's Megha Malpani. Episode 6: The final frontier – AI in space This episode features Astrophysicist Kirsten Banks, NASA researcher Dr Raymond Francis, and Research Astronomer Dr Ivy Wong.

You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA's Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6's fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way. Hollywood's continuing obsession with killer robots might therefore be of significant concern. The newest such movie is Apple TV's forthcoming sex robot courtroom drama Dolly. I never thought I'd write the phrase "sex robot courtroom drama", but there you go.

As I write this, Amazon is announcing its purchase of iRobot, adding its room-mapping robotic vacuum technology to the company's existing home surveillance suite, the Ring doorbell and prototype aerial drone. This is in addition to Amazon already knowing what you order online, what websites you visit, what foods you eat and, soon, every last scrap of personal medical data you possess. The trend of our gadgets and infrastructure constantly, often invasively, monitoring their users shows little sign of slowing -- not when there's so much money to be made. Of course it hasn't been all bad for humanity, what with AI's help in advancing medical, communications and logistics tech in recent years. In his new book, Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales, Dr. Toby Walsh, explores the duality of potential that artificial intelligence/machine learning systems offer and, in the excerpt below, how to claw back a bit of your privacy from an industry built for omniscience. Published by La Trobe University Press. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system – the amount of disorder – only ever increases.

TU Wien Informatics will be welcoming Toby Walsh, AI expert and "rock star" of Australia's digital revolution, for the Gödel Lecture 2022. Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives – for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job, and even how we vote. Without AI, medical technology wouldn't have come so far, we'd still be getting lost on backroads in our GPS-free cars, and smartphones wouldn't be so, well, smart. But as we continue to build more intelligent and autonomous machines, what impact will this have on humanity and the planet?

The BBC's Reith Lectures in 2022 featured Professor Stuart Russell from the University of California, Berkeley discussing artificial intelligence: its promises and its threats. Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at the University of NSW responds. He says autonomous vehicles have the potential to save 1,000 lives a year in Australia, people who currently die in road accidents as drivers drive whilst tired, drunk, or distracted. But autonomous war machines could wreak devastation. Toby Walsh says we need to stay in control and must not make ourselves redundant.

In the coming decade, I expect that AI will play an increasingly prominent role in the lives of people everywhere. AI-infused services will become more common, and AI will become increasingly embedded in the daily lives of people across the world. I believe that this will bring with it great economic and societal benefits, but that it will also require us to address the many challenges to ensure that the benefits are broadly shared and that people are not marginalised by these new technologies. A key insight of AI research is that it is easier to build things than to understand why they work. However, defining what success looks like for an AI application is not straightforward.

Artificial intelligence and robotics have enjoyed a resurgence of interest, and there is renewed optimism about their place in our future. But what do they mean for us? How plausible is human-like artificial intelligence? It is 100% plausible that we'll have human-like artificial intelligence. I say this even though the human brain is the most complex system in the universe that we know of. But there are also no physical laws we know of that would prevent us reproducing or exceeding its capabilities. Popular AI from Issac Asimov to Steven Spielberg is plausible.

A session that imagines the future and makes us realise that the future is now. Are we sleepwalking into an AI future? By 2062, we will have built machines as intelligent as us. An essential discussion with Professor of Artificial Intelligence Toby Walsh about how AI will evolve and the choices we need to make to ensure that we remain in control of the narrative. PURCHASE ON THE DAY Subject to availability, tickets to individual sessions at Mandurah Performing Arts Centre will be available at the venue on the day for just $5.00 per person.

In less than 50 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will match humans traits like adaptability, creativity and emotional intelligence, an expert has predicted. Speaking at the "Festival of Dangerous Ideas" at University of New South Wales in Sydney on Sunday, Professor Toby Walsh said AI will match human intelligence by 2062, media reported on Monday "Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW Sydney, has put a date on this looming reality. "He considers 2062 the year that artificial intelligence will match human intelligence, although a fundamental shift has already occurred in the world as we know it," the university said in a statement. Walsh argued that we are already experiencing the risks of AI that seem to be so far in the future. "Even without machines that are very smart, I'm starting to get a little bit nervous about where it's going and the important choices we should be making", said Walsh who has written a book "2062: The World that AI Made".

In less than 50 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will match humans on traits like adaptability, creativity and emotional intelligence, an expert has predicted. Speaking at the "Festival of Dangerous Ideas" at University of New South Wales in Sydney on Sunday, Professor Toby Walsh said AI will match human intelligence by 2062. "Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW Sydney, has put a date on this looming reality. "He considers 2062 the year that artificial intelligence will match human intelligence, although a fundamental shift has already occurred in the world as we know it," the university said in a statement. Walsh argued that we are already experiencing the risks of AI that seem to be so far in the future.