Teens kick off artificial intelligence conference in Calgary CBC News
Artificial intelligence is pegged as the tool of the future, so it's only fitting that two Calgary students, the future generation, are organizing a conference on the technology. Grade 11 students Claire Du and Gerry Lu organized an event they're calling the AI4Youth Canada Conference. It took a lot of cold calls, bottle drive cash and organizing, but the event is set to go ahead on Sunday and is already picking up interest with more than 200 people expected to attend. "AI is going to be changing our lives as the next generation," said Du. "So, it's going to be very useful in the future for us to change AI as well." Polling their fellow students at schools, they found most teens didn't know what kind of artificial intelligence technology they encounter on a daily basis.