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By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press The tabs open on Premier Wab Kinew\u2019s laptop will all but certainly surprise the average Manitoban. Google Gemini, Claude by Anthropic and other artificial-intelligence powered assistants can be found coding on his behalf, even when his computer appears to be asleep. Following a year-end interview with the Free Press, Kinew revealed he had been multitasking \u2014 with the help of large language models \u2014 the whole time. \u201cI\u2019m building an automatic translator for the Ojibwa language,\u201d he said in his office Thursday during an interview that culminated with an impromptu monologue about AI. Upon completion, Kinew\u2019s homemade software will be able to translate written paragraphs into Anishinaabemowin. The NDP leader said he\u2019s doing his part to digitize the endangered dialect,… <\/p>\n

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By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press The tabs open on Premier Wab Kinew\u2019s laptop will all but certainly surprise the average Manitoban. Google Gemini, Claude by Anthropic and other artificial-intelligence powered assistants can be found coding on his behalf, even when his computer appears to be asleep. Following a year-end interview with the Free Press, Kinew revealed he had been multitasking \u2014 with the help of large language models \u2014 the whole time. \u201cI\u2019m building an automatic translator for the Ojibwa language,\u201d he said in his office Thursday during an interview that culminated with an impromptu monologue about AI. Upon completion, Kinew\u2019s homemade software will be able to translate written paragraphs into Anishinaabemowin. The NDP leader said he\u2019s doing his part to digitize the endangered dialect,... <\/p>\n

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