Dr. Bengio, we now have two added definitions in the draft amendments that Minister Champagne has made to the bill. The amendments add a definition, in a schedule, of “high impact”. They also add a new category, which is specifically machine learning, with a third being general purpose. Is “general purpose” getting too broad in terms of the power?
It strikes me that large amounts of AI that will happen in business are business processes that are not attached to individuals, the Internet or that kind of thing. There's a company in my riding that's trying to train it to identify the difference between a scallop and a surf clam. To me, that's not something that is high impact. It may be for their business, but at the end of the day, it's just business efficiency. It has and will have a general purpose application, if I'm reading it right.
Does the bill go too far with the general purpose provision?