The Liberal government’s latest science policy is a backwards factory for producing white elephants
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Why does Canada give away its best ideas in AI?
Artificial intelligence is catnip to cheque-wielding politicians. But their investments won’t pay unless we stop hawking patents
The meaning of AlphaGo, the AI program that beat a Go champ
A Q&A with Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of ‘deep learning’—which helped Google’s AlphaGo beat a grandmaster—on the past, present and future of AI