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One of the challenges in the AiLECS lab is finding ways to deeply collaborate with our AFP colleagues in machine learning model development. It’s one thing to sit around a (perhaps, virtual) whiteboard, spitballing architectures and algorithms and talking in generalities about data. But when it comes to actually working together to develop and…

As is sometimes customary, I’ll open with a joke.  Well, actually, my wife’s joke. She and I used to watch ‘The Big Bang Theory’. She would say that, while most people viewed it as a sitcom, she considered it a documentary, and I would watch it as a lifestyle show. Ba-dum-ch. Anyway… I was…

Machine learning does all sorts of things for us, from the mundane to the extraordinary. But where does the underlying data that those algorithms and AI models train on come from? Today’s blog post signposts the official launch of AiLECS lab’s My Pictures Matter campaign: a world first crowdsourcing initiative to create an ethically…

When I was little and learning how to write, I asked my mother why the words had to go from left to right on the page. She told me that language scripts can run right to left, left to right, vertically … but all of them have rules; so that we can understand each…

“Watch, listen and learn!” This was the advice given to me on my first shift with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) twenty-three years ago.  That advice still resonates all these years later.  Operating in a criminal environment that quickly connects and scales through the use of technology and is increasingly defined by the use…