Mamdani said St. Michael's could reduce staffing by 20 to 30 per cent through efficiencies using things like natural language processing to go through data and collect information.
"We can tell you Saturday, from noon to six, there'll be 80 patients waiting in the emergency department. Ten of them will have mental health issues, 12 of them will be hard to treat." With the use of generative AI and the explosion of apps such as ChatGPT, Deschatelets said the reality of how quickly this technology is advancing hit him hard this year.
The most current version of artificial technology, Yalnizyan said, differs from what we've seen in the past. "Universities, colleges and high schools should be teaching every child everything they know about every generation of this technology because it is changing fast," Yalnizyan said. "It's almost treating art as if it's a problem. The only problem that we're having is because of greedy CEOs [of Hollywood studios or publishing houses] who make millions and millions of dollars, but they want to make more money, so they'll cut the artists completely. That's the problem," he said."It comes down to the bottom line, and businesses as they grow that number need to get larger while things start getting cut.