Artificial Intelligence?
By Roman Kowalczuk, 25 Problems administrator
Last updated on Friday April 18th. Before that, April 8 and February 11, 2025. To contribute to this section please send e-mail to "roman" at 25 Problems dot com, no spaces. Or write to “25 Problems”, Box 771 Station "A" Toronto M5W 1G3
So what's next, in A.I. for urban dwellers?
Assuming Toronto is not invaded by our neighbour to the south, I suppose my main concern is the onset of driverless cars and trains in my area of the city (St. Dennis Drive, across from the Ontario Science Centre) and what will undoubtedly follow, eg. ai-augmented property surveillance (who gets to review the records, and how often?) and ai-generated maintenance reports.
In the new A.I. city (look up what will be "real"? Will your resumé ever be read by a human, at corporate H.Q.? Going forward will landlord-tenant tribunal members be an A.I.? (You may want to look up recent Ontario government press releases, or go to web pages like metaworldx.com - the key string here is "digital twins")
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April 18, 2025 - your reading list, pertaining to A.I. just got longer with this report from Microsoft's Canadian operation - microsoft.com/en-us/industry/microsoft-in-business/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2024/06/Canadas-Generative-AI-Opportunity-White-Paper-FINAL-English.pdf
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Did you catch the first two global A.I. summits? In the second week of February the New York Times had a guy in Paris for the third conference; he suggested that the first two events were much more focused on the potential risks and harms of advanced A.I. systems.
The Times reporter said that the “gloom and doomers” had been sidelined this time around, in favor of a “sunnier, more optimistic vision of the technology’s potential”. He suggested that a leaked draft of the official summit statement was panned by A.I. safety groups for paying “too little attention to catastrophic risks”.
See www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/technology/ai-summit-paris-technology.html _or_ (ARCHIVED COPY) .https://archive.is/zOrmU
At the end of February, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was on Bloomberg TV talking about "Alexa Plus".
Steven Levy posted a note about a third-week-of-March executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump that purports to put an end to U.S. federal data silos. So hoovering up unclassified data will become a one-stop shlopping experience, under the Trump regime?
There was an important letter from then-outgoing TDSB chair Rachel Chernos-Lin last year to the government of Ontario. See this link? www.tdsb.on.ca/home/ctl/Details/mid/43824...
Full disclosure: some of the accessory code for some of the underlying features on this web page was created by generative A.I. systems
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Last updated on Friday April 18th. Before that, April 8 and February 11, 2025. To contribute to this section please send e-mail to "roman" at 25 Problems dot com, no spaces. Or write to “25 Problems”, Box 771 Station "A" Toronto M5W 1G3
So what's next, in A.I. for urban dwellers?
Assuming Toronto is not invaded by our neighbour to the south, I suppose my main concern is the onset of driverless cars and trains in my area of the city (St. Dennis Drive, across from the Ontario Science Centre) and what will undoubtedly follow, eg. ai-augmented property surveillance (who gets to review the records, and how often?) and ai-generated maintenance reports.
In the new A.I. city (look up what will be "real"? Will your resumé ever be read by a human, at corporate H.Q.? Going forward will landlord-tenant tribunal members be an A.I.? (You may want to look up recent Ontario government press releases, or go to web pages like metaworldx.com - the key string here is "digital twins")
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April 18, 2025 - your reading list, pertaining to A.I. just got longer with this report from Microsoft's Canadian operation - microsoft.com/en-us/industry/microsoft-in-business/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2024/06/Canadas-Generative-AI-Opportunity-White-Paper-FINAL-English.pdf
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Did you catch the first two global A.I. summits? In the second week of February the New York Times had a guy in Paris for the third conference; he suggested that the first two events were much more focused on the potential risks and harms of advanced A.I. systems.
The Times reporter said that the “gloom and doomers” had been sidelined this time around, in favor of a “sunnier, more optimistic vision of the technology’s potential”. He suggested that a leaked draft of the official summit statement was panned by A.I. safety groups for paying “too little attention to catastrophic risks”.
See www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/technology/ai-summit-paris-technology.html _or_ (ARCHIVED COPY) .https://archive.is/zOrmU
At the end of February, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was on Bloomberg TV talking about "Alexa Plus".
Steven Levy posted a note about a third-week-of-March executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump that purports to put an end to U.S. federal data silos. So hoovering up unclassified data will become a one-stop shlopping experience, under the Trump regime?
There was an important letter from then-outgoing TDSB chair Rachel Chernos-Lin last year to the government of Ontario. See this link? www.tdsb.on.ca/home/ctl/Details/mid/43824...
Full disclosure: some of the accessory code for some of the underlying features on this web page was created by generative A.I. systems
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