New Zealand seriously needs a national AI strategy to keep pace of global change in technology, according to the Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AIFNZ) research report AI is emerging as a transformative set of tools and technologies to solve many business and social problems. Continue →

Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform lives of New Zealanders just like the arrival of electricity 130 years ago, according to a landmark new research report The report says AI has the potential to increase New Zealand’s gross domestic product by up to $53 billion by 2035 across 18 industries. Continue →

The announcement of the world’s first self-driving electric air taxi being piloted in Christchurch is just one of the examples of New Zealand becoming a living tech laboratory, says NZTech Chief Executive Graeme Muller The Zephyr Airworks aircraft, financed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is a great testimony to responding to a global challenge around traffic and congestion, Muller says. Continue →