We’re delighted to announce two DECRA recipients at RMIT SCT: the fantastic Senuri Wijenayake and the fabulous Maggie Liu!

Picking up on potentially useful alternatives approaches @karenhao.bsky.social reports on how AI researchers worked with community consent and agency to build a tiny specific model for Te Reo in New Zealand; including guardianship of the data long term. #EmpireofAI

We’ve just had a hilarious and disturbing story from #EmpireofAI where a senior AI leader burns an effigy of a bad AI. @karenhao.bsky.social

Kudos to Naima Vahab for presenting her PhD research at "Storytelling for Impactful Research (STIR) Competition " at RMIT STEM College. What an amazing opportunity for polishing your #scicomm skills and knowledge sharing across STEM disciplines. @tyagilab.bsky.social @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

Kobi and @karenhao.bsky.social discuss the problems of image training specifically. Kobi brings up the problem of narcissism.

Kobi Leins notes that the book reports that removing explicit material from the training data led to a drop in performance; that this revealed ethical and bias problems with the data chosen for training @karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireofAI

Following on from the issue of gender ; the staff who prepare the data on which AI is trained are treated to standards far below human rights expectations. This crosses the global south @karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireofAI

Reflecting on the impact of gender; @karenhao.bsky.social points out the many technologies don’t work for women ; and AI businesses have fired teams of women brought in to help reduce bias. #EmpireofAI

Kobi Leins points out the lack of concrete evidence to support the hyperbolic claims for AI boosts to productivity @karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireofAI

Moving on @karenhao argues that big tech too often demands the public serves it; not that it (profitably) serves them.

Thanks to the hundreds of people who have turned up to @karenhao.bsky.social ‘s talk this evening. Also to our RMIT colleagues in the Social Change EIP and the Business and Human Rights Centre.

@karenhao.bsky.social moves on to pointing out the lack of true general purpose AI and the vast consumption of resources needed for marginal improvement. #EmpireofAI

Now @karenhao.bsky.social is in conversation with Kobi Leins ; she starts on the links between AI empires and methods of colonialism.

Our @lisagiven.bsky.social is introducing @karenhao.bsky.social at Storey Hall ; on the theme of the Empire of AI.

Our @lisagiven.bsky.social is introducing @karenhao.bsky.social at Storey Hall ; on the theme of the Empire of AI.

Excited to share that my amazing RMIT ADM+S team – @damianospina.com, Kun Ran, @shuoqisun.bsky.social, and Dinh Anh Khoi Nguyen – are global finalists in the #SIGIR #LiveRAG Challenge! I'm incredibly proud of everyone and what we've achieved. What a fantastic journey! 🎉

We are glad to have hosted #CHIIR2025 last week - now we’re starting to look forward to #SIGIR2026.

Our @theconversation.com article discussing 4 ethical models of search engines is out! theconversation.com/what-makes-a... @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @umbrellacorpn.bsky.social

Fantastic keynote by Kathy Brennan at #CHIIR2025! Insightful points on UI design at Google moving beyond the 'average user' to truly personalize experiences. Thought-provoking and inspiring

IRRJ, the Information Retrieval Research Journal, is the new player in the information retrieval publication landscape. The first issue has recently been published. Have a look at irrj.org/index, and don't forget to follow @IRRJ.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy!

I'm hiring! if you're a specialist in computing education, and you want to work with a really lovely team, please consider applying: www.seek.com.au/computer-sci...

Celebrating the end of the academic year at the wonderful Melbourne Museum.

We were delighted to host the 2nd Rainbow in AI Workshop today; thanks to @andyperfors.bsky.social for a great talk on the challenges of psychology and AI, Xander Hunter on AI and archives, Reanna Browne on AI futures and Shannon Novak on creativity and AI.

This is absolutely BRILLIANT. The Finnish gov knows that educating its kids to critically think so they can understand the concept of actual fake news will protect its democracy. The Aust gov needs to consider adding this type of leaning to the Aus curriculum. edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Welcome to our guest and PhD students presenting at our annual Doctoral Colloquium! It's happening now in the Media Portal on Swanston Street.