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Silverpond, on behalf of the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, surveyed the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Meetup community. The results provided insight into Victoria’s AI skills base and industry capability. UNCLASSIFIED
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About The Responders
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• The results indicate Victoria’s AI skills base is a relatively young and predominantly male. • This is largely consistent with the broader ICT workforce, as captured by ABS data and DEDJTR’s annual Victorian ICT Industry Survey.
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS What academic qualification/s do you hold? Most commonly cited qualifications ● IT ● Computer science ● Data science ● Science ● Electrical engineering ● Mechanical engineering ● Machine Learning ● Mathematics ● Software Development ● Robotics and Mechatronics Common non-technical qualifications ● MBA ● Arts ● Economics
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS Breakdown of Victorian Universities Represented in the MLAI Ecosystem
There are AI skills from around the world in the community ● USA ● UK ● China ● India ● Austria ● Russia ● Germany UNCLASSIFIED
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82% of respondents are open to new opportunities to work in AI in Victoria. UNCLASSIFIED
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AI Employment
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What type of work do you do in AI?
Support Roles include ● Consulting ● Management ● Education ● Business Development ● Recruitment
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS Areas of AI responders are working within
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS How long have you worked in AI?
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How large is the company of institution you work for?
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS A large proportion of organisations are using AI in advanced ways
1.Build advanced machine learning tools and algorithms 2.Trained models, running at scale in production 3.Proof of concepts and prototype models 4.Use models created by others 5.Interested by haven’t started 6.Have heard about it but don’t know much
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS Is your job located in Victoria? If your organisation outsources AI, where is the external team based? ● ● ● ● ● ●
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Melbourne (5) Various (2) India (1) UK (1) US (1) Victoria (1)
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AI Industry Opportunities
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS Examples of current significant uses of AI technologies in Industry ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Automated customer service using chatbots Disease detection Predictive treatment analysis Predictive models for maintenance Retail and media recommendations Spam detection Intrusion detection Detecting fraudulent activity Smart and Autonomous vehicles Targeted marketing Facial recognition Industrial visual inspection Personal assistants Asset Management UNCLASSIFIED
Which industries are best placed to improve performance with AI? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Health/Medical (53) Transport/logistics (42) Finance (26) Manufacturing (16) Government (13) Retail (13) Agriculture (12)
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Victoria’s AI Capacity
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS • The majority of respondents (61%) consider Victoria to be well placed to develop significant capability in AI. But views were mixed, and a number of things were identified as both reasons for and against YES (61%) – some reasons:
NO (31%) – some reasons:
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Strength of unis Good degrees Lots of talented people Excellent research centres / capacity • Good start ups / incubators • Good industry mix
Not leading research in AI Can’t retain talent Limited business investment Not enough gov support of sector • Lack of start up culture • Poor uni-industry connections
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What is required for Victoria to foster and develop significant AI capabilities? Attract and retain talent
Legal and policy frameworks
Funding, investment, grants
Attract international companies
Internships and training opportunities
Better connections
Promote / raise awareness
Government support
Tax breaks
Incubators
Improve AI ecosystem
Hub / research centres
Support education and training
Better internet
Encourage industry demand
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Organisations working on AI in Victoria
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AI AND ADVANCED ANALYTICS CAPABILITY IN VICTORIA Academia Deakin – Applied AI Institute, incl PRADA , institute for intelligent systems research Data61- Robotics La Trobe – AI included in computer science and engineering degrees Monash - Robotic vision ARC; bidding new AI CoE RMIT – computer sciences and robotics, evolutionary computing and machine learning Swinburne – robotics and mechatronics, and data science University of Melbourne – joint masters Tsinghua Uni China for Deep Learning
Large Corporates and Internationals in Vic doing AI ANZ – hired ex Google AI expert, call centres Boston Consulting Group – advanced analytics capability Carsales – predictive analytics Cochlear – device calibration DarkTrace – utilises AI for cyber threat detection Deloitte – advanced analytics capability Dragontail Systems – Quality control AI for restaurants EY – interest in developing capability, strong analytics capability GCS Agile – big data and regtech company IBM – research lab using IBM Watson for health apps iSelect – developed AI algorithms to direct customer service and manage calls KPMG - advanced analytics capability, Solution49 Liverperson – AI for customer care NTT Data – able to develop AI solutions in collaboration with international offices PwC - advanced analytics capability REA Group – interest in developing capability Red Marble – consultancy using AI for bus solutions SAGE – provides automation services SAS - advanced analytics capability SEEK- strong interest in advanced AI/data science skills Splunk – AI for business analytics Telstra – undertaking AI work with Deakin Zendesk – AI driven analytics
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AI AND ADVANCED ANALYTICS CAPABILITY IN VICTORIA Start-ups / SMEs ActivePipe – automated campaigns, smart analytics and AI to support lead generation in real estate. AIPOLY AI app to assist the blind Alpha1 Monash uni spin-off AOS Group – autonomous software products BigDatr - analytics and intelligence for advertising spending BlAck AI - AI that monitors behavior Bookbot – use of AI in education resources for kids with learning difficulties. Brooklyn Dynamics predictive sports analytics CarCloud – automation and AI to support sales and marketing in car rentals CliniCloud AI and neuroscience. Content Samurai – automated content creation CultureAmp - employee survey analytics and machine learning applications Daisee – start up developing AI solutions Datalicious - big data analytics and predictive modelling for marketing Digital Falcon – AI for drones and analytics DIUS – ML for business analytics Elula / VMTech AI driven tools for automation of business processes and governance Enkr8ia – neuroscience and AI app for habit change Fab9 support capability development Fillr – intelligent autofilling online forms FlinkLabs – AI and ML for analytics Forloop – ML and analytics for aviation Geografia – spatial stats and machine learning Gobbill–payment system with AI fraud detection Gooroo AI recruitment tools Inference Solutions Australia - speech recognition software Infoready – AI/ML for business data analytics IntellPower – intelligent diagnostics electronics Kalido – marketing automation / analytics
Medibio – health data ML analytics Meduza labs – AI and ML algorithms Neodata Australia - Big Data analytics Northraine - machine learning, predictive analytics. Park Lane IT – ML analytics Phoria – immersive AR/VR applications using ML Quil – machine learning to evaluate education outcomes. Real Thing Entertainment natural language AI interface Rome2Rio – ML analytics Salmat – online marketing apps using ML/AI Savvi - big data and data science to solve enterprise problems Sentient Vision Systems - computer vision tech and video analytics Servian– big data and ML for enterprises Shine solutions – big data and ML for enterprises Silverpond AI consultancy Sofihub – AI to help elderly stay in home Symbolix - data science and analytics solutions for business Systema AI – platform to personalize content The Lumery - collective of MarTech & AdTech experts incl. advisory on AI. Xlabs – AI for gaze tracking Zetaris - creating data lakes and pattern recognition software for data analytics
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Impact of AI to the Victorian Economy
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ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT
In addition to the survey of the Victorian AI ecosystem, a report was requested detailing the impact AI could have on the Victorian Economy. Mel Lau completed the report and has summarised the Key Findings and Recommendations on the following Slides
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ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT Key Findings ● ● ● ● ● ●
Globally, it is estimated that tech giants spent A$26b to A$39b on AI in 2016 alone (dominated by digital giants such as Google and Baidu) UK pledged A$3b in AI and robotics research. US federal government invested into unclassified AI in 2015 alone is A$1.3b. South Korea recently announced its investment of A$1.1b on public-private AI research center. Australia could potentially deliver a significant economic dividend of A$2.2 trillion and create millions of jobs utilising AI technologies by 2030. Australia has the largest land size per capita and the highest labour cost among major economies (e.g. G20 countries). With its ageing population, Australia is a country that needs autonomous systems the most. Australian job market will be negatively affected by AI the least, making Australia a great landing pad for AI startups. 24 UNCLASSIFIED
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Invest in a comprehensive AI economic impact review and survey the capability of AI research and development within Victoria Similarly conducted in the UK, Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK published in 15 October 2017 by Dame Wendy Hall FRS FREng (Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton) and Jérôme Pesenti (CEO, BenevelentTech). Investing into setting up an AI infrastructure, comprising of a pre-acceleration program to attract AI talent coming to Victoria and to nurture local entrepreneurs Creating a AI knowledge partnership to help local industry and municipalities to better prepared for the upcoming changes Establishing a community support facility to reach out to the public especially the schools.
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VICTORIAN AI COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS Acknowledgements MLAI Melbourne Meetup Community Tim Kovess, Victorian DEDJTR Susan Sheldrick, Silverpond Jonathan Chang, Silverpond Mel Lau, RMIT
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