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The Toronto tech unicorn Cohere has big plans to create AI that can literally speak our language. But how human do we want our robots to be?

H. G. WATSON

Many twentysomethings want to spend their nights at a bar. Ivan Zhang wanted to spend his at Google. It was 2018, and his friend Aidan Gomez was working for Google Brain, a research team dedicated to making machines intelligent so they could improve people’s lives. Zhang had dropped out of University of Toronto’s computer science program to work for a friend’s genomics company, but he still loved research—and the thought of publishing a paper as a dropout was appealing to him. “That spirit of learning never left,” he says. After work, Zhang would often drop by Google Brain’s Toronto offices to hang out with Gomez. They’d study deep learning in the lab until about 1 a.m. They would feed computers large amounts of data to see if the machines could…

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Canadian Business (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2022

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