The All In conference is touted as Canada’s largest artificial intelligence and tech event. It brings together thousands of people to discuss and showcase some of the latest innovations that artificial intelligence has to offer. “There’s a lot of ways where AI can help improve human capabilities, but it’s important that we do it responsibly and the right way,” Isabelle Turcotte, All In CEO, said. On the opening day of the conference, Canada and Germany agreed to invest more than $300 million to build safe AI through a not-for-profit organization called Law Zero. It was founded by Yoshua Bengio, a Quebecer and AI leader. Recently, there have been a lot of concerns about artificial intelligence. With some warning it could pose a threat to humanity. When asked if he thought these concerns were alarmist, Bengio said: “There’s enough scientific reasons to think that something like this could happen, even if we don’t know what’s the probability, that we should take it seriously. The good news is there are ways to build AI that will be safe.” At this conference, there are some interesting displays of what AI can do. Local company Compass Data + AI was showcasing a race car simulator with users able to play the Formula 1 video game. Their statistics were tracked in real time. “[It] displays all of the key stats that a driver would want to see, such as speed, G-force, tire temperature, track position,” William Chan, Compass Data + AI CEO, said. The conference is an opportunity for Compass to showcase what it can do. “This is just an example of good Canadian engineering capabilities that we have right here in our backyard,” Chan said.
