There are a lot of opportunities to take the research discoveries from our students or faculty at various Canadian institutions and move them to applications. Canadian industry has one of the lowest rates of adoption, as far I know, of AI in the world. We need ways to bridge the high-quality talent that's coming out of universities, to increase that talent and to provide opportunities for Canadian businesses to get their feet wet with different kinds of AI technologies.
As to the ways to do that, we can learn from other countries in how they have set up applied institutes of AI and funded different kinds of projects to give students access to companies to understand their problems. Those companies will need access to infrastructure to then try out the different AI techniques and to know they have a means of moving forward to integrate them into their businesses over the long term.
There are models we can learn from that can bring together different hubs and applied institutes, and that can let us take the fundamental discoveries that exist within Canada and move them into benefits for Canadian industry and Canadians through that.