Advice from a world-leading AI expert? Don’t trust him

Why? Because it lies. It makes things right again.

The elephant is proof of this. And the $7 million bracelet. More of that later.

The man calling it out is Professor Toby Walsh, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and senior scientist at the university’s AI Institute.

This man is so well respected internationally that when he visited Australia he was one of three Australians he invited to meet.

The other two were Gina Rinehart and Guy Sebastian, which made for an interesting waiting room.

I spoke to Walsh on my podcast, Neil Mitchell asks why? Just days after he also advised another of the incredibly wealthy, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, about using an AI fake on his behalf.

We spoke as the world gradually becomes aware of AI, its benefits and dangers.

Anyone who does a Google search…