1. The Golden Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Improving connections with government agencies
ATO, Canberra, ACT, Australia; 18 July 2017
Adj/Prof Hanna Suominen,
Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning (ML)
Team Leader of Natural Language Processing (NLP)

2. Outline What is AI and how does it work?
What is the role of AI now and in the future?
How will AI impact the facets of our lives: e.g. economy, education, and healthcare?

3. Outline What is AI and how does it work?
What is the role of AI now and in the future?
How will AI impact the facets of our lives?

4. Knowledge is Power in Information Society

5. From Data Recording to Data Analytics

6. AI is an Enabler Actionable evidence-based decisions
Shedroff N (2000). An Overview of Understanding. In RS Wurman (ed.): Information Anxiety 2.

7. AI Works By Converting Data Into Insights
From your audio or video, reports , measurements,
and other data
Through a model
To your
customised insight:
Filled out forms
Visual surveillance
Situational awareness
Decision support

8. Outline What is AI and how does it work?
What is the role of AI now and in the future?
How will AI impact the facets of our lives?

9. Trusted Analytics

10. Science and Art of AI
AI research and development should be driven by evaluation, covering
performance measurement,
behavior of the system/method,
its limitations,
its generalisability, and
its future development.
Cohen & Howe How evaluation guides AI research: The message still counts more than the medium. AI Magazine 9(4):35.
Cohen & Howe Toward AI research methodology: Three case studies in evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 19(3):

11. Key Issue: “Trust me, it works like magic!”

12. Sound an Alarm
Cross-sectional status Longitudinal Trends Textual evidence
Beds/patients
Automatic detection of patients with invasive fungal disease from free-text computed tomography (CT) scans. J Biomed Inform 2015.

13. Fill out a Handover Form
Benchmarking clinical speech recognition and information extraction: New data, methods and evaluations. JMIR Med Inform 2015.

14. Protection of Human Subjects in Record Research
Personal Data
Careful consideration & compliance with
the appropriate governance, policy, and
legal frameworks
Prerequisites for International Exchanges of Health Information for Record Research: Comparison of Australian... Medinfo 2017.

15. International Policies

16. Process of Getting Data
Plans &
policy study
Ethics
approvals
Research
permissions
Data collection & de-identification
Research
Data
destruction

17. Trustworthiness and Accountability
Scientific
Evidence
Practice-based
Evidence
Actionable evidence-base for
clinical judgement and decision-making
Applying language technology to nursing documents: pros and cons with a focus on ethics. Int J Med Inform 2007.

18. Disruptive Technology and Power Structures

19. Outline What is AI and how does it work?
What is the role of AI now and in the future?
How will AI impact the facets of our lives?

20. Sound an Alarm
Cross-sectional status Longitudinal Trends Textual evidence
Beds/patients
Automatic detection of patients with invasive fungal disease from free-text computed tomography (CT) scans. J Biomed Inform 2015.

21. Healthcare

22. Education: Jobs Explorer http://jobs.t3as.org
Annual quantification on all AU job ads of
which industries and geo- locations absorb PhD,
what are their most sought- after skills, &
how are these posts characterised
Pilot funded by AU Gov Dep of Industry, Innovation, and Science
Invited speech on the capitol hill to Hon Greg Hunt MP and the Group of Eight
→ Discovery Translation Fund

23. Business: Compliance Auditing

24. Thank You!