Kia ora and welcome to this weeks AI wrap the first for September. I tried a few other tools to write this and reverted back to ChatGPT as co-author. It feels like (I might be wrong) there has been a great deal of noise this last week on the AI front, more apps announced, lots of vendor promotion masked as media articles but not as much of substance - so here is a collection I've read that are worth your time. 

As the pandemic forced us all into lockdown in 2020 and our businesses had to scramble to move their operations online, the Government launched the Digital Boost scheme to help them out.

SFIA is a framework that helps provide direction for you or your teams upskilling journey. It'll help identify skill gaps and next steps to uplift your capabilities

Kia ora koutou and welcome to this weeks AI wrap. I wanted to try Jasper generative AI this time but needed to put in my credit card for a trial. So I moved onto Copy.ai. This week there has been a tonne of news on AI with articles on AI's learning from toddlers movements, do Americans trust AI's, a few New Zealand use cases on the farm and eradicating pests.

This week I tried using Google's Bard to write this blog. Over 20 articles with everything from AI and War (scary), AI and emissions from airplanes (cool), Apple, Toyota, IBM all investing heavily, facial recognition gone wrong, automation tools for technical debt and scrum masters.

This is the first in a series looking at what the major political parties are promising in the digital technology domain - for our sector, towards closing the digital divide and looking to the future of work.  Act Party Policies = Nothing for Tech - no specific policy, no portfolio