Tag: artificial intelligence
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The Death of Paid Software? AI Creates Free ADOBE & OFFICE Clones
During his Liedtke’s Got a Take segment with Gene Valaitis, Jon Liedtke discusses an open-source developer who used AI to build free clones of popular software from ADOBE and MICROSOFT. Liedtke argues that replicating software functionality isn’t IP theft or piracy, predicting this shift could disrupt the subscription-based software model for big tech.
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One Minute to Midnight: AI Hallucination Almost Triggered a US-China War
Jon Liedtke discusses a leaked report revealed a US military AI hallucinated that a Chinese cargo ship carried nuclear weapons to the Middle East, nearly triggering an armed conflict. Although double-checking prevented disaster, analysts warn that prioritizing speed over accuracy in military AI adoption risks disastrous escalations, directly threatening allied security, including Canada’s.
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AI Whiplash: Pre-Crime, Fake Reporters, & Immortality or Human Extinction
Gene Valaitis and Jon Liedtke discuss AI’s threats, from fake journalist identities scraping local Canadian news to Anthropic’s predictive surveillance tools. Liedtke argues that tech companies use apocalyptic warnings as PR spin for regulatory capture, seeking to create high barriers to entry to secure monopolies rather than protect public safety.
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610 CKTB | Why Green Ideology Loses to Physics
Gene Valaitis and Jon Liedtke discuss the vulnerabilities of Canada’s power grid during intense summer heat waves. They analyze how rigid green policies, the rapid adoption of heat pumps, and the massive cooling demands of expanding AI data centers create a dystopian threat of systemic grid failure.
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Why Green Ideology Loses to Physics
Climate ideology is colliding with physics as heatwaves expose grid vulnerabilities. From European nuclear shutdowns to Canada’s subsidized heat pumps, bureaucratic green policies are supercharging summer power demands. Compounded by insatiable AI data centers, our legacy grid faces a dystopian breaking point. Planners must embrace grid realism over whiteboard fantasy before the system buckles.
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AM800 CKLW: SHOULD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BE REGULATED IN CANADA?
Carmi Levy, tech expert joins to discuss ChatGPT’s chief saying AI should be regulated and whether it should be regulated globally.