I liked some of what he said around focusing on applications across industries e.g. save fertilizer in farming, decrease diagnostic time in healthcare. I liked the talk about enacting privacy legislation.

I did not like how for everything he said about sovereign AI infra ended with "and if we fail to do it ourselves we'll buy it" (from you know who.) I didn't hear any contingency plan for tackling potential rising unemployment as a result of AI integration. Seems like they're betting on the AI-creates-more-jobs-than-it-destroys scenario.

He did not address the question about losing sovereignty by embedding US tech into our economy, e.g. what happens if the US turns off our AI access at a point when our economy is reliant on it.

Ultimately I'm very skeptical even though I think there's genuine potential for social benefit from productively applying AI where it makes sense. I'm skeptical that this bunch would deliver those social benefits. I think they're likely to deliver benefits to capital/business from instead of working Canadians. I'd be happy to be wrong.

What did you think about it?

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

I read a couple of news articles about it today, I have not yet watched the video but in general I think this sucks.

It seems nothing but the continuation of what the AI tech bros want:

Push it down everybody's throat
Spend tons of money on it hoping for the best without evidence of actual improvement via its adoption
More money going to the USA

[–] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 21 hours ago

I don't know how many minutes of this I'll be able to take. Already I'm getting tired of watching this group of a dozen unfortunate souls stuck standing there behind the speaker, acting as human furniture, smiling and pretending to be impressed for the full hour from the looks of it. I hate it. It's got to be going out of style some day soon. If not, maybe they should be first in line to have their jobs replaced by AI.

"Too often, AI is talked about ..."

So true. I'm going to stop watching right there. Looking forward to getting my official government AI learning kit in the mail so I can learn to AI all the AI in the new AI-powered Canada.