PM Mark Carney held 2025 budget meeting, proposing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s AI and quantum computing industry
On one hand, if companies are going to be using AI, better that it’s on-shore than in the US or other hostile countries.
On the other hand, fuck AI slop in general.
Glad we’re cutting $400M from healthcare for this! More AI in the hospital’s to replace pesky doctors and nurses is what I really want!
this budget is just trickle down economics with a tik tok music background
yeah man do it. I’m making money hand over fist cleaning up AI slop, sure I’d love to have more clients in Toronto that need to dig themselves out of the LLM mess they made. get that government money that will eventually go into my pocket.
I’d rather that billion go towards housing though. But hey if they want to throw away a billion dollars over 5 years I’m more than happy to take a little bit of it off their hands.
Protip: If you’re a developer and you’re struggling to find work, bone up on your code review and freelance yourself to companies to clean up AI slop, been doing that for over the past year and I’m making more money than I ever did when I was just a regular web/software dev.
We already had Al in our hospital and eventually it was determined that Al was better suited elsewhere. I’m not sure why expanding Al’s scope could help when that was the biggest complaint.
Just to point out that we’re currently in a housing crisis because it was treated as a commodity to profit off it. As much as people have problems with things a large amount of people are elated with the prices.
This sets up a future where Canadians will fight against literally the largest companies in the world for water and energy. The rest of the strategy sounds mediocre as well.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/canadian-sovereign-ai-compute-strategy
The government is investing up to $700 million to support the Canadian AI ecosystem through increased domestic AI compute capacity that leverages Canada’s natural competitive advantages in energy, land and climate.
Fuck’s sake.
My hope is this translates into Canada strengthening its position as a global scientific research hub as the US drains their talent pool.
I wish Canada invested that money into more worthwhile science rather than giving money to more AI scammers
This money is going to be spent at Canadian universities mostly. It’s actually pretty awesome that every canadian researcher can get access to that much compute power with relative little effort. As for nvidia… well they were scammers before they did the AI thing.
The research Im familiar with would benefit more from larger number of CPUs rather than GPUs, which I understand to be the tool of choice for AI. Im sure there are many fields that could benefit from more GPU power but will they actually be able to use these resources or will the resource allocation prioritize “AI” projects?
Actually after looking up whether the Digital Research Alliance if Canada is involved (It seems they are), I feel a lot better about this announcement. My experience with this group has been quite positive and their administration and allocation of research clusters to be pretty good.
Jeepers Creepers
Could be worse, but it’s a gamble. The big companies are just set up to get the rug pulled out from under them by creative young programmers who have a better understanding of this technology. Let’s be real though, I feel like this policy is designed for marketing the LPC to young less crazy conservatives. Instead of the CPC being pulled back into our shared reality, they’ve pulled the LPC into the griftosphere.
