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AI Beyond the Hype

​Lately we notice a strong proliferation of diverse classification and extraction technology providers that base their service offering solely on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Based on various AI algorithms their claim is to extract all meaningful data from documents without any human intervention.

Australia and New Zealand jointly adopt PDF/A-4

The joint Australian and New Zealand IT-021 mirror committee on Records and Document Management Systems recommendation to both Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand, the national standards bodies of the respective countries, to adopt PDF/A-4 was recently completed on 23 December 2022.

chatGPT solves the Information puzzle, (with some help from SAM)

​chatGPT is a remarkable tool, able to provide detailed answers and generate seemingly competent essays, prose and even poetry, legal and medical advice and software code from a simple natural language query. We asked it to solve some of the fundamental challenges of information and records management, which it was happy to do, with some qualifiers from SAM.

Why Australia needs data regulation with teeth

2022 has been a wake-up call for Australian organisations and the government alike when it comes to data protection. From Optus to Medibank and now Telstra, we’ve seen the frightening impact the leaking of personal data can have on individuals and organisations, and the very real implications to the economy and our safety more broadly. 

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the tool’s advanced capabilities – and concerned by its potential to cause disruption in various sectors. A much less discussed implication is the privacy risks ChatGPT poses to each and every one of us. Google has unveiled its own conversational AI called Bard, and others will surely follow. Technology companies working on AI have well and truly entered an arms race. The problem is it’s fuelled by our personal data.

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