This report identifies that New Zealand urgently needs to increase its focus on the core foundations needed to operate in

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This report identifies that New Zealand urgently needs to increase its focus on the core foundations needed to operate in an AI enabled future – particularly investment, skills and talent, research, trusted data, ethics and regulation. The report also shows how AI enabled solutions can be used to improve wellbeing, productivity and sustainability.

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There was an article forwarded to me which said Google AI has a retinal scan that can predict cardio-vascular events.

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Very cool - hey @simon.ross how do we manage anonymisation (key way to use data) if we can find so many things about you in pictures like these? Sounds like we might need good consent and transparency models and services.
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Exciting to see transfer learning applied to healthcare being mentioned in the case study. https://aiforum.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PDH-Case-Study.pdf
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I think it’s generally accepted that additional controls are often needed in partnership with technical anonymisation procedures to enable safe use of data.
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A great example of a recently completed research on AI application for faster and more accurate diagnosis of patients presenting with chest pain.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12266553
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