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OMG read the room.

You can tell he's a banking guy because the majority of other people would SHUDDER if someone promised to make their jobs "more interesting"

Tangentially, I would love to read soke writing of yours on the idea of sovereign compute. Seems like it's the big new idea in AI policy

Wait until this guy learns about how NFTs are apparently the future.

NFT's for every citizen.

"Sovereign AI" = buying expensive Nvidia chips to power data centers that sell compute to American companies.

A Napster for us all

Just watched Patrick Boyle’s YouTube from a couple of hours ago on Meta’s loss of $US88B on the Metaverse. The hype for that is a model for the AI hype. Zuckerberg is such a powerful trendsetter.

Avi does seem to be on the right track. The couple centrists he lost have been made up for in kind by actual lefties. I do agree on Singh, for what it's worth, I just don't like the "better than PP" thing cause it gets used by Liberals so much to justify anything Carney does.

Oh AI Canada…

Like Bitcoin, NFTs, and the Metaverse before it.

Cleaning out my mom's apartment recently and I found a set of these share certificates given to my parents and one for each of my siblings and me.

As if we needed more proof that world leaders are, at the end of the day, just people like you and me. They are NOT infallible. And yes, this IS supremely stupid.

For a second I read this as you had a way to make the buildouts impossible and I cheered ... then I comprehended the actual statement you were making and my hopes were dashed. Honestly, how do you fight DC builds when the PM is all in?

If I win the Powerball, I'm going to bankroll this endeavor. Like pay for a whole staff for you. Mainly because I'm a troll and it would be wonderful troll food.

I believe that rant will have a two drink minimum.

The Big Shart?

That’s why we love you, Ed. You’ve stepped up.

Go Ed, we trust you to make accurate notes ❤️

And for all theft with slop, all the doomerism, all the damage that data centers have done

Glad this fucking loser is two sure thing byelections from a parliamentary majority

OT: Loved the pod with Drew and Roth.

Please do I cannot be the only one holding the fire at his feet to make him do the loser dance

Thank you for your service 🫡

newspapers prewrite obituaries for a reason

Godspeed you magnificent bastard; hopefully this is inspiring more people than just myself to get into journalism and document this insanity.

For those of you who aren't familiar? Also, seriously, follow that account. It's the best political analyst on social media. That it is from a goddamn parody account of freakin' *NIXON* is a prime statement on the state of the world, but the fact remains... bsky.app/profile/dick...

*small typo, y’all know what I mean

That is the central issue many of us have with this seemingly unquestioned belief that ai can do “all the things”. Serious questions and concerns are not being answered or even addressed. The people who are talking seriously about the limits of ai are the ones to listen to.

I'm at least versed in it so I'll give it a shot. "Do we have Canadian AI?": No, not really. There's a couple startups but most things that are using AI are using American or Chinese LLMs, including Canadian companies that are using them.

I’m losing my fucking mind.

They'll just claim it's AI.

Eh I

like i know ur guy sucks too but carney is the worst pm of my lifetime and i lived through the harper years

What is AI for all and why is that good?

"Mommy, what's the man in this old video on your phone talking about?" "Nothing, Dearie. Have I ever told you about Pogs?"

We honestly need a montage of powerful people and companies saying shit like this set to yackity sax when invester bros finally learn how to count and realize OpenAI is loosing like five times more than it's taking in.

He's not "confused". He's carrying out capital's agenda because that's who he works for.

Yeah it's a poorly-written sentence for sure

It's gonna be like when everyone thought hovercraft were the future of everything.

"No, he meant Al Yankovic."

his AI czar used to be a presenter on the CBC and lost his job on the CBC due to using his job there to engage in an art sale scam... with Mark Carney. Anyway now that guy is my MP

As an American, I was excited for Canada when he was elected because Canada suffered less from the 2008 financial crisis because of Carney. However, he’s bitchmade and beholden to capital and capitulates far too much. I didn’t think he’d be perfect, but he’s worse even by liberal standards.

In fairness, during the same speech, he told US weapons manufacturers to fuck off.

This would be great if only AI stood for Actual Intelligence.

I’ve said it before, but it’s going to be so infuriating watching the inevitable tell-all documentary about the collapse, and see those responsible as talking heads saying, “EVERYONE bought into AI, it fooled EVERYBODY.”

Can’t they see it’s a tech bound to fail? Be like Bush Jr betting his entire presidency on the inevitable economic boom of 3D TV production.

“Our goal is Segway for all”

Canada could be investing in actual innovative tech — mRNA vaccines, or battery power storage for the grid, whatever — but we get this nonsense instead.

Good on Trudeau for not having promised a Metaverse for every Canadian.

My hope is that he'll do exploratory "What is good for us?" committees and panels and etc etc; it would be his kind of move. And then with luck, any momentum will die there. But that's hope and luck, and *gestures at everything.*

I can't fucking stand Carney gods I wish it wasn't him or Pollievre last election

Plus the whole "making decisions for a human". That's my only rule about AI. #AI should NOT make any decisions. That's it. That simple. Everything else is fair game, as long as companies offset energy usage. And yes, making art or writing is making a ton of small decisions, so it falls under #noAI

I'm not even anti-AI. There are valid uses of the technology. But fuck me if it's not taking all the fun out of jobs it shouldn't be doing...