In the modern splendour of Christchurch's Te Pae Convention Centre, the tech sector came together to honour its most successful, impactful and inspiring companies and individuals on Friday.

Do we need a national conversation on AI? Can AI shift our productivity slump? the new EU AI act, Will AI make us stupid. Voicebox, anti money laundering, Robocat and more.

UK Government efforts. AI Ethics. ChatGPT's jokes. New Beetles song and more.

A quick AI wrap this week as I am on holiday! This week a view on assessment and AI from Claire Amos school principal, Bernard Hickey's podcast, new sorting algorithm from Deepmind, Sam Altman's latest thoughts on regulation and a great resource for creating an AI architecture.

There is so much AI news each week it was taking over our digital pānui so we decided to pull that content out into a seperate post each week.  There were three big news themes in the AI news this week - we're all going to die, it's creating demand for computer chips and we should be worried about mis, dis and mal information. 

Peter has written a great summary of the science and technology things in the budget here, definitely worth elaborating on in some areas. But wait there was more, here is my take on the budget 2023.