> If you elected a businessman or a lawyer, he/she'd tell you that Canadian exports to the US are 2x the imports from the US,
An honest one wouldn't, because it's categorically untrue.
"U.S. exports were $441 billion, while imports were $482 billion, resulting in a United States $41 billion trade deficit with Canada."
This doesn't even count the multinational tech corporations providing services in Canada through a local subsidiary, something that is not counted in balance of payments.
Aren't there already a ton of startups doing finetunes for their local niche? Many aren't even "AI" companies - it's pretty easy to slap a finetune together if you enough data.
If you mean developing a model from scratch just for your niche - the bitter lesson is that scale is everything and that a finetune from an internet-scale model will outperform you easily.
I currently speak and understand English, Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin to varying degrees.
I was forced to take French for 2 years in high school. Never even took it seriously. But because of that, after 6 weeks of private Spanish tutoring, I was able to hold hour+ long conversations with strangers while backpacking LatAm.
I've spoken Cantonese my entire life (but not truly native level). I took an entire year of college level accelerated "Mandarin for Other Chinese Language Speakers". I took it quite seriously. I'm backpacking China right now. I still can't even talk to anyone for more than a couple minutes without having to use a translator or look up words.
> there are plenty of people in Guangzhou who are perfectly bilingual
There are also plenty who move to Guangzhou and Shenzhen and can't pick up Cantonese at all. Turns out having an authoritarian government force Mandarin on you will make the Cantonese speakers bilingual rather quickly.
High-skill immigrants disproportionately found companies (whose very existence implies driving up demand in the labor market), as well as disproportionately induce new consumer demand (high-skill -> high pay -> high consumption), which again drives new companies.
Out of America (and the world's) only $1T companies:
Brin and Huang are 1st gen immigrants.
Nadella is a 1st gen immigrant; he brought Microsoft out of it's malaise.
(Jobs' bio father was an immigrant, as was Bezos' adoptive father)
3/5 ain't bad. (2/5 if you're a stickler)
Tesla, which at one point was a $T company and is currently pretty close, is also famously founded by an immigrant.
There are very few people in tech in America who will not have worked for an immigrant founder/CEO at some point in their career.
I'm imagining something like an GPT-4 agent that has connections to your Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce, etc.
You ask it a question and then it iteratively queries your data and produces some an answer/some code/ a graph. Or it generates a plan that you can edit a bit and then it executes.
That sounds like it would be pretty useful copilot for me? I'm not very familiar with the intricacies of analytics work though.
Godot currently doesn't even have good support for things like in-app purchases for iOS/Android. No one is willing to work on stuff like that for free/open-source fun.
I think the big moat is that for studios, games are so risky to make, that there's no reason to take on tech risk by possibly running into issues like this. You know Unity will work for basically any non AAA game you want to make.
Biggest question: How much of OpenAI's IP do they get to access at Microsoft? (and perhaps take with them to whatever new startup they would obviously found after?)
Like if you feel it's not important enough to write yourself, just don't put anything there?