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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.
May 31st 2023
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A new paper presented this week by Amii scientists at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) details how they could use machine learning to significantly increase the efficiency of Attabotic's robotic warehouses and the promise the technology holds to transform supply chain logistics.
May 31st 2023
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On April 28, Jiamin He —MSc student at the University of Alberta — presented “Consistent Emphatic Temporal-Difference Learning" at the AI Seminar.
May 11th 2023
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Russ Greiner — Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and one of the founding members of Amii — is being recognized for his outstanding contribution to furthering computing science with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Computing Science from CS-Can | Info-Can.
Looking to build AI capacity? Need a speaker at your event?