Category: Emerging Tech

The Future of AI: Separating Myths from Reality

The holy grail of AI, the pinnacle of human achievement, the ultimate weapon, our future master, and the end of the world as we know it. Is that plain enough? Don’t Panic… yet. In the […]

Transforming Citizen Engagement in Digital Government

Because the digital landscape is evolving so rapidly, the concept of digitising government services has reached a crossroads. Where we used to think about what’s worked before, we now have a tougher question to consider: […]

Harnessing Sovereign AI for New Zealand’s Economic Growth

Unless you live under a rock you will be familiar with “consumer AI”, be it ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney or even the older and somewhat stupider Siri and Alexa.  For most people this is the […]

The Future of Efficient Government: Introducing Digital Advocates

Have you ever found yourself lost in a maze of government websites, filling out form after form, only to realise you’ve missed a crucial document or deadline? I certainly have, and I’m sure I’m not […]

Neural Networks in Plain English

If you Google ‘neural networks’ you’ll find millions of articles explaining how Naive Bayesian regression is used to drive reverse propagation across hidden layers of artificial neurons, with cool pictures of lots of circles connected […]

Neural organizations

What is the optimal business process for delivering a disruptive product that has never been made before?  That question is like asking Ikea to write assembly instructions for an item of furniture that hasn’t yet […]