Rob Gibson

6 days ago | castanet.net | Rob Gibson

Hope Air is hoping you will think of them on June 6 as they mark a nationwide event that shines a light on their work to provide equal access to healthcare for all patients, no matter where they live. Hope Air is a national charity that helps thousands of low-income Canadians reach life-saving medical care by providing free travel arrangements—including flights, accommodations, meal vouchers and local transport—for patients from over 650 rural and underserved communities.

6 days ago | castanet.net | Rob Gibson

Train Wreck Comedy keeps the laughs coming this summer with legendary stand-up comedian John Wing coming to the Kelowna Actor's Studio later this summer. "This is your chance to catch one of comedy’s most respected voices in an intimate, cabaret-style setting," says Rob Balsdon, owner of Train Wreck Comedy. Wing has more than 40 years in stand-up comedy and more than 350 television appearances, including The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

6 days ago | castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen |Rob Gibson |Kathy Michaels |Jeremy Hainsworth

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is confident that recent Indigenous opposition to certain fast-tracking laws will not affect the province's ability to attract investment from Asian trade partners.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Rob Gibson

New research from the University of British Columbia Okanagan indicates that students are using artificial intelligence responsibly, not just to boost their grades. A recent study published in Advances in Physiology Education by assistant professor Meaghan MacNutt, who teaches professional ethics at UBCO, shows student's use of AI contradicts common concerns. “AI tools like ChatGPT allow users to interface with large language models.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen |Rob Gibson |Kathy Michaels |Jeremy Hainsworth

A B.C. author is proposing a Canadian class-action lawsuit against a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company alleging it used his and other people’s copyrighted work to train its computer system. In a May 23 B.C. Supreme Court notice of civil claim, James Bernard MacKinnon alleges that Anthropic PBC set out to build an artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) — a technology trained on large amounts of text data to learn nuances of language.