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Hey there,
The long days of summer are upon us, and our teams are looking forward to spending time with loved ones and taking some well-earned holidays. Through the summer, our team at Amii is still ramping up efforts to leverage our leadership in AI to drive forward business adoption and grow the talent pool.
With the renewal of the $443 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, Amii is reaffirming our commitment to accelerating AI commercialization and advancing leading-edge research. As we put the strategy into action, we’re looking forward to adding to our already-stellar team of researchers and doing even more to support companies as they develop their AI competitive advantage and build their internal teams.
Already, we’ve seen how transformational an investment like this can be in establishing Canada as a global player in AI, and this next phase of the strategy demonstrates a commitment to advancing world-changing research and leveraging leading expertise to drive business adoption of AI to the benefit of all.
If you’re seeking opportunities to get involved in the growing excitement around AI in Canada, here are a couple of ways you can jumpstart your career in the field:
Read below for other exciting updates from Amii and Alberta’s AI community. Meanwhile, if you haven’t had a chance to see it, check out our AI Week wrap-up video to relive the excitement of the inaugural event!
See you soon,
July 19 (12 - 1pm MDT): AI Meetup
Looking to build a career in AI? Amii's Spencer Murray hosts this month’s AI Meetup, which is all about technical and non-technical career paths in AI. Joined by Product Owners from Amii’s Training and Talent teams, Spencer will guide an in-depth conversation about:
July 27 (12:15 - 1pm MDT): Learn Downtown - AI in Alberta
Join Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute expert Spencer Murray for this engaging and informative talk on Artificial Intelligence in Alberta and how the technology is transforming the local economy!
Learn why Alberta is known as a global centre for AI, and dive into some of the ways AI can help organizations through projecting, producing, preventing, promoting and personalizing.
Oct 23rd 2024
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On Sept. 13, Cory Efird — an MSc. student in the Computing Science Department at the University of Alberta — presented “Contrastive Decoding for Concepts in the Brain" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 23rd 2024
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Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and co-lead at BLINC Lab Patrick Pilarski is leading the team to compete in the 2024 Cybathlon, an international competition advancing leading-edge assistive technologies for individuals with limb differences.
Oct 23rd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
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