[LINK] How can Local Government use AI to improve services?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

On 7/25/25 14:24, David wrote:

> On Thursday, 24 July 2025 10:35:53 AEST Tom Worthington wrote:
>> Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) where Tim 
>> Turner, is running a meeting on "How can the ACT Government use #AI 
>> to improve #government services?" organised by the Pearcey Foundation.
> I believe I detect a certain eagerness among many organisations to 
> jump abord the AI bandwagon in order to be seen to be modern and 
> "with-it", and supposedly to improve productivity. But if the ACT (or 
> indeed Federal) Governments are considering AI, IMO the 
> decision-makers had better be well aware of its' fiscal & 
> environmental costs, its' limitations & constraints, and its' inherent 
> legal traps for over-eager players.
<snip> meanwhile (looking for NSW budget reference)
> The Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools (the 
> Framework) seeks to guide the responsible and ethical use of 
> generative AI tools in ways that benefit students, schools, and 
> society. The Framework supports all people connected with school 
> education including school leaders, teachers, support staff, service 
> providers, parents, guardians, students and policy makers.
Are reports anymore than Lit Searches that sit on shelves?

But could there be value in editing books with AI and nodding to the 
latest winner of the Miles Franklin award Using Google to Translate.
> Its protagonist, playfully named Xiang Lu, is working at Sydney’s 
> Chinese consulate, but is fired when it emerges that he doesn’t speak 
> Chinese and has been using Google Translate to do his job.
...ofcourse China rehoused (approximately 1.3 million) people according 
to google AI who lost their homes in the building of the Three Gorges 
Dam in 1998. Perhaps there is a use of AI at the afr...
> Xiang goes viral as #BadChinese, and is discovered by megalomaniacal 
> film director Baby Bao, who whisks him away to Port Man Tou, one of 
> the shoddily built “ghost cities” 
> <https://www.afr.com/world/asia/china-s-infamous-ghost-cities-are-finally-stirring-to-life-20210906-p58pb4> 
> that sprang up amid China’s 2000s property boom.
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/monolingual-bad-chinese-author-wins-miles-franklin-20250724-p5mhf0

Marghanita

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