ChatGPT's 'Write an article in the style of Jen Gerson' is very uncanny valley, because if you showed me the below and asked me whose style it was aping I would be able to guess Gerson, but it's also just... off.
Let’s just say what we’re all thinking: artificial intelligence is either going to save us from our collective stagnation, or it’s going to destroy everything in its path like a very polite, exceptionally efficient Godzilla that can write you a birthday poem in the voice of Margaret Atwood while simultaneously hacking your bank account and telling you why your resume is unimpressive.
Either way, it will be Canadian policymakers who greet this existential inflection point with a bold, decisive shrug.
Yes, I know. We have an AI strategy. We’ve appointed committees. Task forces. There are billions in venture capital floating around somewhere — presumably tied up in a 78-page PDF presentation on “ethical frameworks for responsible AI governance in a pluralistic society” that no one has read past page four. Probably drafted with the assistance of AI.
And yet…
We’re still having conferences about whether ChatGPT can write too well, while tech giants quietly embed AI models into the guts of every system we use. It's already rewriting how we work, how we learn, how we interact, and most terrifyingly, how we think — and we’re still stuck in the part of the movie where the scientists argue over the meaning of the blinking lights.
This country no regulate things good. I get it.
But AI isn’t a blinking light. It’s a freight train. And we’re debating whether we should even bother checking the schedule.
We are spirits in the material world
ChatGPT's 'Write an article in the style of Jen Gerson' is very uncanny valley, because if you showed me the below and asked me whose style it was aping I would be able to guess Gerson, but it's also just... off.
Let’s just say what we’re all thinking: artificial intelligence is either going to save us from our collective stagnation, or it’s going to destroy everything in its path like a very polite, exceptionally efficient Godzilla that can write you a birthday poem in the voice of Margaret Atwood while simultaneously hacking your bank account and telling you why your resume is unimpressive.
Either way, it will be Canadian policymakers who greet this existential inflection point with a bold, decisive shrug.
Yes, I know. We have an AI strategy. We’ve appointed committees. Task forces. There are billions in venture capital floating around somewhere — presumably tied up in a 78-page PDF presentation on “ethical frameworks for responsible AI governance in a pluralistic society” that no one has read past page four. Probably drafted with the assistance of AI.
And yet…
We’re still having conferences about whether ChatGPT can write too well, while tech giants quietly embed AI models into the guts of every system we use. It's already rewriting how we work, how we learn, how we interact, and most terrifyingly, how we think — and we’re still stuck in the part of the movie where the scientists argue over the meaning of the blinking lights.
This country no regulate things good. I get it.
But AI isn’t a blinking light. It’s a freight train. And we’re debating whether we should even bother checking the schedule.