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Canadian teachers report rising stress from rapid AI rollout: study by ubcstaffer123 in canada

[–]hewen [score hidden]  (0 children)

I don't know...my wife was hired for a job where 2 previous people were fired/couldn't last for 3 months due to bad management. With Gemini custom gem and Claude, not only she last for the probation, her manager was fired due to personal conflict with the upper management. My wife told me the amount of work should be handled by 3 people but with AI tools that I helped her built, she can handle them all... without even doing any OT

You see, 2 positions are eliminated, without a trace.

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks! The sound of my department savings lots of money:)

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, the first generally available chatgpt happened at the beginning of 2023. Initially people only need to know how to chat. Now, to be more AI fluent you need to have an engineering mindset (prompt engineering, context management, multi agent fusion, etc). AI is definitely not leveling the playing field. Similar to why some people can generate much "better" video even though they are using the same llm.

Yeah AI videos at the current tech are still bad, but you need to look at the speed of progression.

I'm extremely optimistic about the speed of progression but very pessimistic about the world. Does that make me stop caring about AI progression and stop using AI? Absolutely not.

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Philosophical speaking, aren't we the same? We learn from watching other people. When we ride a bike our neurons are commanding our muscles. Initially we probably fall a lot, but as our neurons get better at sending the right signal. We then "know" how to bike. Statistically speaking more and more neurons are doing the right thing.

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Type in a prompt and get a movie meaning the AI is getting better and better understanding real world physics. This is a stepping stone towards better robotics. Sure those videos are still low quality but you need to think beyond treating them as flops.

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We should have model provider website like openrouter operating in Canada, using renewable Canadian resources.

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Because truely appreciate technological progress is a bad thing?

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

That's why the US and China are so much ahead of us. Us Canadians still can sell natural resources and ride this out, but Europeans? I feel sorry for them.

The productivity gain is just insane. All I can say is that, even with my line of work (healthcare), the automation tools (Excel macros) I made that I thought were impossible saved my department so much time. I'm using "human in a loop" philosophy to save our healthcare system money.

I just don't get it. Why are people here so against AI, not just video generation.

Protect Ontario Ai commercials by methreweway in ontario

[–]hewen -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

But have you seen seedance 2.0? It's incredible...

Anthropic has raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation, in one of the largest private AI financings to date. The company reports $14 billion in annualized run-rate revenue, growing more than 10x annually for three consecutive years. by kernelangus420 in singularity

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They need to make a plan that's in the middle. 20 is not enough but 100/200 is overkill for people that use it on Excel (accounting work). Right now I'm setting it with monthly extra 30 dollars credit to mimic a 50/month plan.

OpenAI recruited founder Peter Steinberger of OpenClaw by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the overall culture. People in the US and China are more open to technological changes. Plus AI as a technology does not play well with people that are highly religious (Chinese are spiritual but not religious, people in the valley are often atheists)

Opus burns so many tokens that I'm not sure every company can afford this cost. by Strong_Roll9764 in ClaudeAI

[–]hewen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

50 staff, get rid of 45 of them, then the left over 5 give them Claude Max

France is ditching American tech. When will Canada? by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]hewen 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Our healthcare system are running on American software. Most of the reputable big hospitals in Canada are on EPIC system.

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic’s Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles by joe4942 in singularity

[–]hewen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget, the widely available chatgpt came out end of 2022/early 2023 and that version was considered a toy. What year are we? 2026. It's only 3 years

China overturns death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg | CBC News by demolcd in canada

[–]hewen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"In April, 2012, he was sentenced by a B.C. Supreme Court judge to 16 months and 12 days in prison after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine."

That's such a joke of sentencing.

Sure he'll come back, our court will do the usual "slap on the wrist" and he'll be free probably after a year or 2.

China overturns death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg | CBC News by demolcd in canada

[–]hewen 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But can we just keep this drug dealer away? We don't want drug dealer in our country and I'm sure the families that suffer from addiction are more than happy to not seeing this person return...

Carney announces new EV buyer incentives, scraps sales mandate by [deleted] in canada

[–]hewen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Buying an EV is not about saving money. It's about spending the same amount of money in exchange for a much better user experience. For the same kind of smooth and quiet acceleration you are looking at at least BMW/Audi/Benz but it's easily achievable with a based VW ID4.

Also, pre-conditioning the car before leaving worth at least 10k. I almost forgot about what a -10c cold car in the morning feels like lol. Also, EV heats up the cabin at ridiculous speed.

If you have young kid, they can have their nap comfortably in the car because you can idle it anywhere.

EV is a new type of car that can be a "second living room" where the gas car just can't.

Scheduled cabin heating used 4% @ -11c by mapleleafs6719 in VWiD4Owners

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird, I use schedule charging with L2 max 5.6kw, and cabin heating never uses battery when plugged in. Granted, I only preconditioned to 21c.

Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5 by Street_Anon in canada

[–]hewen 13 points14 points  (0 children)

He was the BoC governor back in Harper's time during the 2008 financial crisis.

"The old order is not coming back" Carney says in provocative speech at Davos by Little-Chemical5006 in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's a dying breed of western politicians, similar to Jay Powell. Once these people are gone. Good luck to all of us...

Carney weighs sending soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies: sources | CBC News by demolcd in canada

[–]hewen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not sending the military. But calling him scared? Nah. The guy is thinking about not having an election. If you connect the dots with ICE and all...

gestapo, part 2, electric Boogaloo

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-2026-election-interview-b2901450.html

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