John Vial

OPINION: Recent accelerator program shows the value of a flexible approach in delivering a market need.

OPINION: If employees know the right question to ask, AI can help them do things that were previously impossible.

OPINION: The hardest part of business is seeing if anyone actually wants what you are making.

OPINION: While founders' age gaps have risks, they also create a more interesting mix of experience.

OPINION: Some of the hype surrounding the danger posed by artificial intelligence models can be overblown.

OPINION: Tax changes in the recent federal budget will benefit those building long-term technology businesses in WA.

OPINION: I bought a useless humanoid robot, and almost everyone loves it.

OPINION: It is up to you as the manager to decide what autonomy you give your AI.

OPINION: Installing a virtual assistant can have unintended consequences, so beware.

OPINION: No-one wants to read through a lazy offering of slop, but that's what many AI-created reports are.

OPINION: The AI work world will still need software developers.

OPINION: Competent IT departments become more important as the pace of technology accelerates.

Four Australian robotics businesses have had some major successes recently.

OPINION: Connectivity and speed are enhanced by using wrappers' ‘translator' skills.

OPINION: OpenAI's latest GPT iteration could be targeting the high-volume, low-cost AI market segment.

OPINION: AI is facilitating a staggering rate of software development.

OPINION: Getting business owners and young engineers together would be a first step in bringing hackathons back.

OPINION: The creators of ChatGPT just spent billions betting coders will still exist in the future.

OPINION: A framework detailed in 2017 is just as valid today in terms of automation in the workplace.

OPINION: The self-driving car bubble of the 2010s has lessons for the development of humanoid robotics.

OPINION: The arrival of DeepSeek makes clear AI will keep getting better and cheaper, and businesses need to adjust to take advantage.

OPINION: My latest challenge creating code with AI offered useful insights that may be instructive for users in business.

OPINION: Companies will invest in robotic technology if the value proposition is described in the right way.

OPINION: ChatGPT's latest model uses an old idea that powers your phone's mapping app.

OPINION: In the future, robots won't need to be trained, they will just imagine how people do things.

OPINION: Australian businesses need to adopt innovation and technology in ways that make people more productive.

Training robots to perform reasonably simple tasks requires a huge engineering effort.

OPINION: Development of humanoid robots requires plenty of engineers to build and design the systems and algorithms.

You could try AI and freelancers, but agents offer some insurance against risk and mistakes.

Offers overseas appear more enticing when there's a lack of willingness to take calculated risks at home.

AI is amazing at matching patterns, but its tendency to ‘hallucinate' means there are limits to its capacity to ‘think'.

As AI rises, the sourcing, securing and use of data remains problematic for many smaller businesses.