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Mar 30th 2023
News
Recommended Viewing: TED Talk with Amii's Alona Fyshe - Does AI Understand Us?
Do large language models like ChatGPT truly understand us? Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe explores this question, and how brain imaging might provide an answer, in her recent TED Talk.
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Mar 21st 2023
News
How AI & the brain can learn from each other: an Alona Fyshe keynote
Alona Fyshe presents on the similarities between the human brain & AI and how to leverage this relationship. Check out her AI Week 2022 keynote.
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Jan 23rd 2023
Research Post
Weakly-Supervised Questions for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction
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Jun 7th 2022
News
Media Release: AI Week launches new era of AI impact in Alberta
AI Week brought together more than 2,100 AI enthusiasts and professionals to connect across nearly 60 unique events, including business-focused panels and discussions, academic sessions, networking socials and celebrations.
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May 9th 2022
News
Recommended Reading: Why Edmonton is a hub of AI innovation
Learn how Edmonton is gaining a reputation as a hub of innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning
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May 4th 2022
News
Recommended Reading: Alona Fyshe on how studying the human brain can lead to smarter AI
Discover how Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI chair Alona Fyshe is studying the human brain to build AI that uses language better
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May 2nd 2022
News
Amii at the International Conference on Learning Representation 2022
Find out the work that Amii researchers contributed to the 2022 International Conference on Learning Representation
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Apr 14th 2022
News
AI Week brings together the world AI community
Amii has announced speakers for AI Week, May 24-27, including keynotes from Richard S. Sutton, Alona Fyshe, Martha White and Dornoosh Zoonobi & Jacob Jaremko.
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Oct 13th 2021
Research Post
Predictive Representation Learning for Language Modeling
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Oct 13th 2021
Research Post
Which acoustic features support the language-cognition link in infancy: A machine-learning approach
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Apr 30th 2021
News
Amii Presentations & Papers at ICLR 2021
The ninth annual ICLR is taking place May 3-7 online this year! We are proud to share that the work of our researchers are being included in the proceedings.
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Mar 4th 2021
Research Post
Neural representation of words within phrases: Temporal evolution of color-adjectives and object-nouns during simple composition
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Mar 3rd 2021
Research Post
Improved object recognition using neural networks trained to mimic the brain's statistical properties
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Jan 22nd 2021
Research Post
Words as a window: Using word embeddings to explore the learned representations of Convolutional Neural Networks
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Nov 16th 2020
Research Post
From Language to Language-ish: How Brain-Like is an LSTM's Representation of Nonsensical Language Stimuli?
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Nov 9th 2020
News
Amii research papers accepted at EMNLP 2020
Amii commends the involvement of our researchers in this year’s conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), taking place November 16-20.
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Nov 2nd 2020
News
Alona Fyshe awarded a spot in Edify Edmonton's Top 40 Under 40
We are proud to share that this year, Amii Fellow, University of Alberta Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been awarded a spot in the Top 40 Under 40.
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Sep 4th 2020
Research Post
Quantifying Depressed Social Media During COVID-19: Information Retrieval With ML & NLP
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Aug 25th 2020
News
Alona Fyshe to moderate a panel at the 2020 Women in AI Global Summit
Amii Fellow Alona Fyshe will be moderating a panel discussion of Canadian female tech leaders in the upcoming Women in AI (WAI) Global Summit.
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Jul 16th 2020
News
Recommended Reading: Researchers turning to social media to study mental health concerns during the pandemic
Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, Alona Fyshe, spoke recently with CTV about her work tracking mental health during the pandemic.
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Jul 10th 2020
Research Post
Improved object recognition using neural networks trained to mimic the brain’s statistical properties
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May 21st 2020
News
Amii researcher co-awarded $2.5 million to study literacy in a digital and multicultural world
Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been named a co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant to study literacy in a digital and multicultural world.
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May 12th 2020
News
CIFAR AI and COVID Catalyst Grants: Managing the Pandemic with AI
Five Amii Fellows were awarded research grants as part of CIFAR’s AI and COVID Catalyst Grants initiative. The CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants Program is intended to catalyze new research areas and collaborations in machine learning, providing funding for innovative, high-risk, high-reward ideas and projects.
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Apr 29th 2020
News
Amii Researchers dig deep at renowned international conference ICLR 2020
Amii is proud of our researchers' work being featured at ICLR 2020, running online this year from April 26 to May 1. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of AI called representation learning, also referred to as deep learning.
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