Einmal ein KI -Weltführer, verliert Kanada jetzt das KI -Startup -Rennen
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-losing-ai-startup-race/
Einmal ein KI -Weltführer, verliert Kanada jetzt das KI -Startup -Rennen
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-losing-ai-startup-race/
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When I was young in the 90s, I didn’t understand the people much older than me who saw the utility of the internet but were put off by the hype and the grift surrounding it.
Now, decades later, I owe them an apology.
I work in technology since 2000. The pattern in technology startups in Canada is build something nice, growth, get bought. Rinse and repeat.
Sometimes jobs stay in Canada (Ticketmaster) but sometimes they don’t.
We invented the first sound card (ad-lib), were leader in Networking, fiber optic and related „photo-electronics“, leader in instrumentation (light spectrographs)…
All these were sold. Foreign corporations never compete with Canadian business, they just buy them.
Depends what “losing” means. If it’s purely in the numbers of how many startups there are / how much is being spent on AI startups etc, then maybe we are “losing”. But if the goal is to have meaningful and productive contributions to AI then you can’t measure that easily. To “win” we’d need to do the same as the US, which seems to be polluting and displacing thousands of people to build huge data centres just so someone who can’t form real human connections can talk to their AI girlfriend. And that’s a game I think we are fine to lose at.
We have just been lagging behind on all sorts of technology innovations.
It’s all across the sector, high cellular data prices make a lot of products impossible: IoT products just aren’t feasible. We discourage hosting servers at home, IPv6 deployment is pathetic and our datacenter infrastructure is seriously lacking and expensive.
The government needs to create a environment that provides the tools and opportunity for innovation. Datacenters on green energy, cheap fast connectivity, ipv6 addressing, hackerspaces, grants for opensource, etc.
Right now we are setup to be consumers not creators.