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Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.
Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.
Sep 5th 2024
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Martha White — an Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair — has been admitted to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists by the Royal Society of Canada for her research accomplishments in artificial intelligence.
Aug 29th 2024
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Amii partners with SpectraCann to enhance THC drug detection by harnessing AI and quantum optics. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.
Aug 28th 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Aug 28th 2024
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Get a glimpse at how reinforcement learning is being used to improve water treatment. In this episode of Approximately Correct, we’re looking at real-world RL and off-policy learning with Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Martha White.
Aug 15th 2024
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Amii partners with ZeroSound to address noise pollution in complex environments by leveraging the best in AI and sound engineering. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption among SMEs in the Prairie region.
Aug 6th 2024
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Amii partners with the Google for Startups Cloud Program to help founders scale and grow. Participation in the Google for Startup Cloud program is open to any existing startup that has participated in Amii’s ML Exploration program or Level Up: Amii’s CTO Coaching program in the last 12 months or intends to do so in the future.
Jul 30th 2024
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Amii partners with Ambyint to reduce emissions in the oil and gas sector. The collaboration aims to mitigate up to 90% of methane emissions. The project is supported by the PrairiesCan commitment to accelerate AI adoption in the Prairie region.
Jul 24th 2024
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How do we get the best results when AI and human beings work together? In this episode of Approximately Correct, we’re looking into Human-In-The-Loop AI with Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Matt Taylor.
Jul 22nd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Jul 18th 2024
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Amii announces work with Communitech, a Waterloo Region innovation hub, to empower startup founders with the AI tools and resources they need to integrate AI and build in-house capabilities successfully. The collaboration will leverage Amii’s leading AI expertise and resources and be centred around Amii’s Machine Learning Exploration (ML Exploration) program.
Jul 17th 2024
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On June 12, Dr. Mauro Vallati — University of Huddersfield — presented “The Power of Good Old-Fashioned AI for Urban Traffic Control" at the AI Seminar.
Jul 12th 2024
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Learn more about the research of Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Nidhi Hegde. Her work focus on protecting privacy and ensuring fairness for AI models trained on sensitive data.
Jul 10th 2024
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Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe shares her insights on how instruction tuning makes LLMs more useful for a variety of applications.
Jul 8th 2024
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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Ross Mitchell and his project collaborators were recently awarded $1M, as part of The Health Care Unburdened Grant Program, presented by the Canadian Medical Association, MD Financial Management Inc. and Scotiabank. The funding will scale "Jenkins", their AI scribe tool that directly addresses the growing demands of emergency departments.
Jul 4th 2024
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On June 10, Dr. Guni Sharon — Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University — presented “Exploring in Sparse-Reward Domains" at the AI Seminar.
Jul 3rd 2024
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Leading AI research meets pioneering legal technology to set new industry standards.
Jun 26th 2024
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Startups across Canada are encountering increasingly complex problems as they integrate AI into their business and product offerings. Learn more about these struggles, what startups need to succeed, and how Amii helps.
Jun 25th 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Jun 25th 2024
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AI insights from the top of Earth's atmosphere: The latest episode of the Approximately Correct Podcast features Marlos C. Machado talking about using RL in an ever-changing world, and the importance (and. challenges) of continual learning.
Jun 4th 2024
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On June 7, Dan Belostotsky — Founder & CEO of HonestDoor — presented “HonestDoor: Entrepreneurship and the Journey of Using Data Science to Disrupt Real Estate" at the AI Seminar.
May 30th 2024
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Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Ross Mitchell discusses the huge impact that AI will have on the way we collect and use medical data and images.
May 28th 2024
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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair James Wright joins hosts Alona Fyshe and Scott Lilwall to tell the truth about telling lies. Wright talks about his work on disinformation, how artificial intelligence is affecting how we view information online, and why it’s much more complicated than just a technical question.
May 23rd 2024
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Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) is investing $3.125 million in Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) for a project that will see the institute working with up to 30 small - and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba over the next three years.
May 16th 2024
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Amii and New Harvest are excited to announce phase two of their research collaboration focused on applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cellular agriculture. The new phase initiates a year-long project with an open call to researchers and experts specializing in cellular agriculture and machine learning who want to apply ML solutions to solve the challenges in the field.
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