My fellow Canadians, artificial intelligence (AI) is the next great technological transformation, and the time to go all in is now. That is why I am announcing the Government of Canada’s commitment to making an equity investment of up to $1.6 billion in Cohere, so that when the AI investment bubble pops, probably later this year and likely wiping out trillions of dollars of wealth across the planet, Canadians will also lose incalculable sums of money.

  • ryper@lemmy.caOP
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    21 hours ago

    I just have one nit to pick with the article:

    a company that used to make graphics cards for PC gamers to play Duke Nukem slightly faster

    The good Duke Nukem games didn’t need a GPU, and ain’t nobody buying a new GPU for Duke Nukem Forever.

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      18 hours ago

      Did duke 3d not require a gfx card?

      Looked it up and apparently no it didn’t but it could use one from one as isa cards could limit the frame rate due to copy speeds.

      So neat

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    17 hours ago

    And hey, at least when the AI bubble pops, we’ll have all these data centres to build a surveillance state to keep all of you from demanding any of your tax dollars back.

    And there is the punch line to how all of this ends for US too.

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    21 hours ago

    Carney is a businessman, he’s cutting Canada’s tax bill in future years through tax loss harvesting! Smart!