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Canada says AI strategy will help create 250k jobs, boost GDP by 3%
- red-iron-pine 3mo ago> TORONTO, June 4 (Reuters) - Canada unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031 and includes a new C$500 million ($360.05 million) tech fund to help homegrown AI firms. what are these firms going to do? $500 million to middleman firms to flog models made in the US or China? "we want to build data centers, too!"
- k310 3mo agoSee also https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ai-strategy-9.7223236 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ai-strategy-9.722323... Here's the goodie: > Create up to 90,000 AI-related job opportunities for young Canadians. This sounds like buying at the peak -- as we fall from the peak in the AI version of the Gartner Hype Cycle. Until we hit the bottom, I predict electrical power generation and transmission, or "Mechanical Canuck" style checkers.