Happy Canada Day! Please enjoy this special video episode of THE GRAIN Podcast, featuring my grains of thought about how Ottawa can build a new creative economy now that Evan Solomon has taken the office of Minister of AI and Digital Innovation. Plus, I introduce THE MEMORY MACHINE, my new AI art exhibition and speaker series.

Links to the articles I mention…

* Canada’s AI Opportunity with Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon [RBC Disruptors podcast]

* Liberals won’t reintroduce old AI law but will address copyright issues [The Logic]

* Kate Armstrong recaps a panel on AI and the arts with OCAD University in Toronto [Substack]

* Report on Geoffrey Hinton’s debate in Toronto with Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst [BetaKit]

* Nick Frosst tells Geoffrey Hinton why he doesn’t use LLMs to write poetry [@thegrain.ai/TikTok]

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