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OpenAI releases GPT-4, Google announces plans to infuse AI in Workspace tools and do the best coders really have potty mouth?

Regulators rush in to save failing banks, DOJ investigating AI and Australian researchers create electricity out of ‘thin-air’.

Google managers manage to rile a Canadian government committee, GitHub rolls out plans to improve security and a robot lawyer is being sued by a real-life lawyer.  Which one wins?

Often we see a piece of technology that suddenly goes viral with an explosion of interest. Sound familiar?  There’s even a name for this: it's called the hype cycle.  In this episode we set out have a calmer discussion with an expert about the latest hyped technology, AI.  Diane Gutiw is the Vice President of Analytics and AI with CGI, and she has been working in this area for more than a couple of years.

Is the tech talent crunch really over? Twitter’s commitment to privacy on an international level expires and a Canadian retail icon puts humanoid robots to the test in its stores.

Meta’s new large language model gets leaked, DuckDuckGo launches its own AI-powered search engine; New study shows more than 60 per cent of data breaches caused by remote working

TELUS supports women’s mental health, new Capterra research reveals women feel less valued than men at work, and AWS Women of Inspiration Panel details the trailblazing journeys of three senior female executives.

An employee overlooked the update that could have prevented the Last Pass breach. Twitter has yet another outage. And Nokia issues a new cell phone that can be – are you sitting down?
– repaired easily.

Your voice is power – Shopify attacks the Peter Principle, and “Buddy can you spare a drop of
oil?”

At one time the idea of real intelligence was like the Mechanical Turk, constructed in the 19th Century by Wolfgang von Kempelen and which became renowned for mastering opponents in chess.  It was eventually revealed to be a fake. A new, more complex concept of intelligence is a computational regime that starts with human input but learns.  That raises some new questions and here to talk about them is David B. Auerbach Orbach, author of MEGANETS: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities.