Should AI be part of life's biggest moments?

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Whether you like it or not, Artificial intelligence is showing up everywhere these days, and the changes are happening fast. Big changes are coming to the search engine Google and how it uses AI, colleges are facing criticism for using it during graduation ceremonies and this is all while Canada announces its own AI plan and construction begins for a massive data centre south of Regina. Brian McQuinn, an associate professor at the University of Regina and co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data and Conflict, joins us now to make sense of the ever-changing AI news.
9 Jun 12PM English Canada News Commentary

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