Explore the life of George Orwell – and his last and greatest novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four – with acclaimed Australian writer Dennis Glover, who has reimagined the classic novelist’s final years through fiction in The Last Man in Europe.

This is a free event, but bookings are required.

Melbourne Writers Festival 2017

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With the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, will humans become redundant in the workplace? Rutger Bregman, Simon Longstaff, Toby Walsh and Ally Watson discuss the future of worklessness, and its implications for class and social equality.

Melbourne Writers Festival 2017

Creativity is the essence of being human. But will we be unable to tell the difference between human and computer generated art, poetry and music?

Join is for a fascinating look at the developments in creative machines and imagine a world where machines were as creative and collaborative as humans.

Proudly presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

The IJCAI Robotics Showcase will be open to the public on Friday 25 August from 12:30pm to 4:30pm.

The Robotics Showcase will highlight current research and development being carried out in robotics by universities and research institutions from across the world. The showcase features: 

1. RoboCup Standard Platform League exhibition tournament.
The RoboCup Standard Platform league is a humanoid robot soccer competition. Matches will be played on a regular basis in the main foyer. 

2. Robotics demonstrations. 
Several universities and research organisations will be providing demonstrations of their robot platforms in room 208 of the Convention Centre.

3. Robotics video program. 
International research and development in robotics are highlighted through a series of videos screened inboth the main foyer and alongside the robotics demonstrations in room 208 of the Convention Centre.

No registration needed. Please find more information here.

Artificial intelligence promises to transform all parts of law and the legal system. From the way that the profession delivers law, the way that judges sentence offenders, and the way that government interacts with citizens, AI technology will fundamentally change our assumptions about the role of humans in the legal system and in legal decision-making.

Come along and hear our three speakers address the way that computers will make legal jobs disappear (and perhaps reappear) and make the legal system work in ways that we have only just begun to imagine.

Proudly presented by Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Presented by the Churchill Club

Implementing artificial intelligence into your work process can lead to greater efficiencies and more power – provided you get it right.   Most development in a traditional systems environment follows the usual phases -plan, analyze, design, build, test, and deploy, but the AI environment is quite different. 

In this event, our panel will be discussing what you need to know if considering implementing an AI solution in your business.

Jonathan Chang - Managing Director, Silverpond

We speak to industry experts about how they see the future of transport as connected and autonomous vehicles and other technology systems become a reality.

• Will the advent of artificial intelligence allow us to reimagine how we will move around our cities?
• What sort of vehicles and devices are being developed and will they look anything like today’s transport systems?
• How will we need to design and change our transport networks to facilitate this new technology world?
• How will the next generation of transportation and technology change people’s daily lives?

Only by understanding what is possible will we be able to determine the shape of the environment in which we wish to live and work.

Networking refreshments will be provided after the event.

Sponsored by the RACV

This event is part of the program for the Digital Innovation Festival.

More and more human work is being automated. In many businesses, such as Uber, an entire level of middle management has been replaced by computers, with workers reporting to computer APIs instead of humans.

What does all this mean for the future of work and our economic systems? Will continued automation lead to the destruction of the very financial system that created it?

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