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AI for school tutoring, instant medical analysis part of NZ's future - Judith Collins (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Cabinet Minister Judith Collins wants the government to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI), starting with the health and education sectors where it could be used to assess mammogram results and provide AI tutors for children.

"It doesn't do the work for them. It says some things like 'go back, rethink that one, look at that number,' those sorts of things. What an exciting way to do your homework if you're a child."

Deploying AI in education and health would be seen as high risk uses under new legislation passed by the European Union regulating AI.

Using AI in those settings in EU countries must include high levels of transparency, accuracy and human oversight.

But New Zealand has no specific AI regulation and Collins is keen to get productivity gains from extending its use across government, including using it to process Official Information Act requests.

An OIA request by RNZ for a government Cabinet paper on AI was turned down (by a human) on the grounds that the policy is under live consideration.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course the party that's "good for business" would be sucked in by that latest CxO craze of "AI everything".

They can't but help fall over themselves chasing a technology that promises fewer employees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's a follow up article on RNZ I think talking about this a bit more. One of the ideas someone had is that it could be great in health because they could use AI chatbots to talk to patients in their own language.

Which would be a great service for sure; but like, translation tools already exist and are likely to be better than anything branded as "AI" comes up with for a long time and there's always like translation services with humans we could just pay to do it without burning the planet.