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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 27th 2023
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A new report by Deloitte Canada on Canada’s national AI ecosystem finds that Canada tops world rankings in talent concentration, with patent growth and per-capita VC investments among the world’s highest.
Sep 21st 2023
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On August 18, Kristen Yu —a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta — presented “Adventures of AI Directors Early in the Development of Nightingale" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 15th 2023
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Amii is launching a new program to give students the AI knowledge they'll need in the future and other news from around the world of AI.
Sep 12th 2023
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The course aims to build fundamental AI literacy for an evolving digital world
Aug 30th 2023
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On July 28th, Shahin Atakishiyev — a PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “Explaining Autonomous Driving Actions with Visual Question Answering" at the AI Seminar.
Aug 24th 2023
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We're excited to announce that Bailey Kacsmar, Xingyu Li and Geoffrey Rockwell are joining the Amii team.
Aug 23rd 2023
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On June 23rd, Maliha Sultana—a recent Master's graduate at the University of Alberta — presented “An Exploration of Dialog Act Classification in Open-domain Conversational Agents and the Applicability of Text Data Augmentation" at the AI Seminar.
Aug 18th 2023
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Check out the research being presented by Amii scientists and students at this year's International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Aug 16th 2023
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Celebrating Canadian AI, as well as more interesting news from Amii and the world of machine learning.
Aug 11th 2023
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In part two of our roundup of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Amii's scientists talk about the trends they saw at this year's event and share their insights into the future of computer vision.
Jul 31st 2023
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Amii scientists discuss their takeaways from the workshops, and keynote presentations. In part two we will delve deeper to highlight some recent trends and advances that caught their eyes.
Jul 27th 2023
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Amii and Tourism Jasper announce one-year partnership to build AI capacity and explore applications of artificial intelligence that will support the success of tourism operators in Jasper.
Jul 27th 2023
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Check out what Amii students and staff are presenting at this year's International Conference on Machine Learning in Hawaii.
Jun 28th 2023
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On May 19, Zichen Zhang —Phd student at the University of Alberta — presented “A Simple Decentralized Cross-Entropy Method" at the AI Seminar.
Jun 27th 2023
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Tea Time Talks are back for another year. This summer lecture series, presented by Amii and the RLAI Lab at the University of Alberta, give researchers the chance to discuss early-stage ideas and prospective research. Join us for another series of informal 20-minute talks where AI leaders discuss the future of machine learning research.
Jun 27th 2023
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Tea Time Talks are back for another year. This summer lecture series, presented by Amii and the RLAI Lab at the University of Alberta, give researchers the chance to discuss early-stage ideas and prospective research. Join us for another series of informal 20-minute talks where AI leaders discuss the future of machine learning research.
Jun 22nd 2023
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Amii and Protein Industries announce the launch of the Data Readiness Improvement Program (DRIP), a national training program focused on supporting companies to increase their AI literacy and preparedness in Canada’s plant-based food, feed, and ingredients sector.
Jun 19th 2023
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Learn how Amii is helping build AI literacy in the plant-based sector, as well as more interesting news from Amii and the world of machine learning.
Jun 19th 2023
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Learn how you can take your startup to the next level with AI, as well as more interesting news from Amii and the world of machine learning.
Jun 14th 2023
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On May 12, Brett Daley —Phd student at the University of Alberta — presented “Trajectory-Aware Eligibility Traces for Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Jun 6th 2023
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The award is given out every year for "an outstanding masters-level thesis completed at a Canadian University in the field of Artificial Intelligence." Liu, who studies natural language processing (NLP), won for the paper "Non-Autoregressive Unsupervised Summarization with Length-Control Algorithms."
Jun 1st 2023
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Upper Bound, Amii’s signature event celebrating the best in artificial intelligence, has released the final talent bursary numbers awarded for the annual conference.
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 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.
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