A very legitimate well-done to Canada for being one of the least suckered into AI garbage in the world!
ctvnews.ca/business/article/ca…
"“We’re not seeing that literacy that we would like to see when we compare ourselves to our global peers, and there’s some reluctance around trusting AI and really embedding it in how we perform our day-to-day work and how we work,” said Terril."
Excellent news.
#AI
Canada ranks among least AI literate countries in the world: study
As countries around the world race to leverage artificial intelligence (AI), a recent study found that Canada is falling behind, although it’s not due to a lack of innovation, but growing uncertainty and a gap in public understanding, one expert says…Joshua Santos (CTVNews)
Amelia Bellamy-Royds
in reply to Kyle Sawatsky • • •Ooof, that's really poor reporting from CTV, blithely accepting the survey's definition of "AI literacy" to include "embracing the use of AI in their daily working lives".
Literacy on "AI" should be defined by understanding what the technologies actually are (large language models, generative image models, etc), how they are dependent on their training data, their limitations in how they can generate plausible but inaccurate information, and their social & environmental impacts.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Amelia Bellamy-Royds • • •