Quote of the Day: “Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.” Milton Friedman
On Page A4 today, Terry Pender interviews Dr. Maura Grossman at UofW. Dr. Grossman is a lawyer in New York and also a researcher in ethics at both UofW and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. In the interview, Pender tells us that: “She is trying to warn the legal profession and government ministries that oversee the justice system about the threats posed to the courts by generative AI.” O.K. I’ve played with ChatGP4 and I’m also on the testing base for BARD. While interesting, both products are going to take over the world. And we have had so-called “deep fakes” for years. This is nothing new. I’m not worried and neither should anyone else be. I think that the Chicken Little Complex runs a bit to deep in the media these days.
Karen Littlewood is the President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. On the Insight Page today, she suggests that the: “Ford budget shortchanges education yet again”. And I completely agree with her!!! Not allowing competition from private schools in the form of vouchers is a brutal and blinding mistake. This short changes parents and students yet again. Shame.