AI, quantum, synbio: time for a research reboot

AI, quantum, synbio: time for a research reboot
Artificial intelligence has the potential to help New Zealand accelerate progress in in quantum computing and synthetic biology. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
Of the sweeping changes the Government has planned for the research sector, one in particular has been widely welcomed – creating a public research organisation for artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and synthetic biology.With some understatement, the Science Sector Advisory Group (SSAG) chaired by Sir Peter Gluckman told the Government that New Zealand had been “very late to enter the market of innovation based on advanced technologies”.We dropped the ball well over a decade ago when Callaghan Innovation was being...

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