The Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) is an

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(AI) and

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research and translation institute based at the

Lot Fourteen Lot Fourteen is a business and technology precinct at the eastern end of North Terrace in Adelaide city centre, South Australia. The site formerly accommodated the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, which was moved to a new building at the western ...

innovation precinct in

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History

An institute of the

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. Its main campus in the Adelaide city centre includes many Sa ...

, AIML was established in 2018 by incorporating the university's Australian Centre of Visual Technologies (ACVT). It officially joined Lot Fourteen as a tenant in 2020. The

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put into the opening of the institute. In 2018, American

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and defence corporation

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became the AIML's first foundation partner. Between 2018 and 2021, AIML worked with 21 companies, improving their AI and machine learning capabilities, creating 30 new jobs and developing a number of new AI products. One of these was visual effects and animation business

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, enabling it to develop some cutting-edge new tools. Another is Acacia Systems, a defence technology company that specialises in data fusions and tactical tools. In 2019,

worked with AIML to incorporate machine learning techniques in the 2022 film, ''

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''. In September 2021,

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signed a memorandum of understanding with the AIML to collaboratively investigate how advanced

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, AI,

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and machine learning can be applied in

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Description

AIML is a

research institute A research institute, research centre, or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural ...

focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning based at

on North Terrace in

Adelaide city centre Adelaide city centre () is the inner city locality of Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide l ...

. It has more than 160 members, and is the largest university-based research site dedicated to machine learning in Australia, as well as ranking among the global top sites for its

research capability. The institute runs on an

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basis; most of its research is open to the rest of the world, either through conferences and journals or via

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software. Its researchers are using machine learning to assist industries as diverse as

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

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, manufacturing, mining operations, and

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. Tat-Jun Chin is professorial chair of sentient satellites at AIML. Simon Lucey is the director of the institute.

Ranking and awards

In November 2021, AIML was awarded the Excellence in Science and Industry Collaboration at the SA Science Excellence and Innovation Awards.

References

External links

* {{official, https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/ Machine learning researchers Organisations based in Adelaide 2018 establishments in Australia