Weekly bull and bear case deep-dives on AI topics relevant to Australian small business.
Last week, Lee Hickin of the National AI Centre made a strong case that Australia’s real AI advantage lies in applied AI: combining deep domain expertise in agriculture, mining, and healthcare with unique local datasets to build globally competitive products. It’s an optimistic and well-reasoned thesis. But it deserves a harder look. Here’s the counter-argument….
Lee Hickin, executive director of the National AI Centre, made a clear argument in a recent SmartCompany interview: Australia doesn’t need to out-compete OpenAI or Google to win at AI. Instead, the real opportunity sits in the industries Australia has been quietly mastering for decades: agriculture, mining, healthcare: where deep local expertise and unique datasets…