ChatGPT wouldn’t exist without Canadian AI pioneers. Why one fears for the future
“Given these AI systems will soon be foundational to all aspects of our society and economy, it would be a risk to our national security and economic competitiveness to become entirely dependent on external providers,” the report argues.
In Cohere, Canada has a real shot at competing with the Silicon Valley giants. In early February, the company reported it was in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in its next funding round, which could value the startup at. Interest in the company has been booming since the release of ChatGPT, Frosst said.
“My impression is that the culture of innovation — and risk-taking that goes with it — isn’t nearly as developed here as it is in the U.S.,” Bengio said. “Venture capitalists here in Canada are not willing to take as much risk, to invest as much money, to look over a horizon that is this long. “Companies that are being more innovative are going to be selling those products that we should be the ones building.”Goldfarb says that compared with other countries, Canada has not been effective at converting our research into economic benefits for citizens.
Canadian companies have a large pool of workers they can tap into with machine learning training, especially graduates coming from the University of Waterloo, U of T, McGill and the University of Alberta.“It’s a great place for AI, there’s a lot of AI talent here,” Frosst said. “The majority of our employees are in Canada, although we’re spread around the world.”
Attracting foreign investors to Canada is preferable to having our most promising startups leave for another country, but questions remain about who will benefit most from our homegrown AI talent. With Hinton primarily working for Google and Sutskever at OpenAI, the argument could be made that it’s the U.S.
“I think that dream is less enticing to students as the years go on,” Frosst said. “In part, it’s because Canada is getting better. There’s more opportunity here, there’s more companies, wages are going up — it’s a better place to be a developer.”When it comes to ChatGPT, one thing that many computer scientists will say is that it’s remarkable, for sure, but the model isn’t introducing anything we didn’t already know about deep learning.
“Human brains are machines,” he said. “There’s no reason to think we can’t build comparable machines.” With such technology on the horizon, Bengio is calling on the Canadian government to be prepared for how an AGI will impact not just the economy, but also the social and political landscapes of the world.
“We need to change our education system, our social welfare system, and make sure people can shift easily to other jobs.
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