In this episode of On the lineJen Gerson speaks with Karin Barris, a Berlin-based machine learning engineer and author Mercury content. Together, they explore the complex and sometimes unsettling ways in which artificial intelligence intersects with human cognition, creativity and mental health.
This episode of On the line Airbnb brings you. As we have discussed many times before, it is no secret that Canada is in a housing crisis. Some believe that one way we can solve that is to regulate short-term rentals like Airbnb. But the more you see, the more clear it becomes: it simply isn't. According to Statistics Canada, the number of Airbnbs that can be converted into long-term homes reaches just 0.6% of Canadian housing stocks. What has become clear for a long time is that tackling affordability requires a huge bold action to address not just 0.6%, but all housing markets. For more information, please see airbnb.ca/closerlook.
They talk about how the role of AI engineers is changing and what it means for the future. They enter the way we lean against the machine to make our minds. There is a lively exchange of whether AI dating will help or hurt us, and what will happen when we start to rely on it. Karin also explains how these systems reflect our own actions in us. In many cases, it's just that it makes questions difficult in surprising ways and ethical ways.
This episode of On the line It is also brought about by the Metis state of Ontario. That's Sault Cent. Marie, Ontario in 1993. Father and son – Steve and Roddy Pauly – went hunting moose without tags. What followed was more than just a trial. For 10 years, their entire community was being charged – they said they didn't exist, they said they had no rights. In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled otherwise. in R. v. PowleyMetis' rights were fully recognized by law. This is a right rooted in Ontario's history, culture and community.
Today, a new chapter begins on the same land where Metis once cultivated river plots and was pushed aside. The old Central United Church was revived as the Pauly Institute, a Metis-led center of education, culture and truth. Here, a once silent story is told, and Pauly's lesson endures: Justice continues when you stand firm in the truth of your history. For more information, please see ontariometisfacts.com.
Of particular interest to many, we think we'll hear thoughtful views on where AI is heading. It raises difficult questions about how we adapt to the tools we have built, not as aliens or futuristic things, but as a mirror of our own. And it's inevitable that ethical issues that arise inevitably when AI and more and more life-like robots are combined.
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