Building AI for good
The latest news and insights from the BitBakery team
Every conversation on generative AI I have with friends and clients usually ends one of two ways. Either they love the potential and can’t wait to see how it changes the way we work, or they think we’re headed down the wrong path and there isn’t much time to change our trajectory.
I like to think we’re somewhere in the middle.
Many of the tools we use today are powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies without us thinking about them. Android and iOS smartphones use AI to automatically suggest your destination when you open the map application. Grammarly and other writing tools use machine learning to catch mistakes before we hit send. (I use Grammarly and couldn’t imagine writing without it.)
But as developers and creators, we also have a responsibility to build products that respect privacy and intellectual property. Nora Underwood interviewed four leading Canadian AI experts on the MaRS Discovery District blog to get their thoughts on how we can develop AI responsibly. It’s a great read and gives us a lot to think about.
You can also read about two more of our ChatGPT Hackathon projects below, along with a story on the City of Kitchener’s new SDG Idea Factory.
- Wes
From the BitBakery Blog…
Improving the Dungeon Master experience with ChatGPT. We’ve found the Venn diagram of developers and Dungeons and Dragons players overlap pretty well. A great example is the second project from our ChatGPT Hackathon, with our CTO Joe Reda and software developer Annaliese Schropp creating a ChatGPT-powered Dungeon Master assistant application. Read more.
Innovating for good at the SDG Idea Factory. We sat down with Naudia Banton, Manager of the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre and the SDG Idea Factory Lead, to learn more about the newly opened social innovation space in Downtown Kitchener. The SDG Idea Factory is a first-of-its-kind incubator built around the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more.
Creating icon libraries with ChatGPT. Part of designing a new mobile or web application is quickly creating prototypes. One thing we’ve always wanted was a quick way to generate icon sets for these prototypes — and our third ChatGPT Hackathon team of Ryan Sweny and Frank Calpito solved it with their project, Icon Generator. Read more.
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