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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 29th 2020
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Amii has launched registration for the first cohort of the REMI program, Reducing Emissions through Machine Intelligence. The program will enable companies to leverage novel applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for projects that will have a measurable impact on emissions reduction in Alberta.
Sep 29th 2020
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As part of this partnership, Alchemab is establishing a presence in Edmonton and hiring a dedicated apprentice to support advanced research sourced and supervised by Amii.
Sep 28th 2020
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As reported by Artificial Lawyer in their recent article LIDI Project To Lower Legal Data Barriers, Help NLP Training, the freshly launched Legal Innovation Data Institute (LIDI) project aims to increase access to legal data.
Sep 24th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week seven videos now.
Sep 23rd 2020
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On September 17, participants gathered digitally for the AI Meetup, featuring Mohammad Motallebi (Amii researcher at the xAI Lab) & Matthew E. Taylor (Amii Fellow & Associate Professor at UAlberta).
Sep 22nd 2020
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On August 28, 2020, Research Scientist at Sony AI and Amii alumnus Craig Sherstan gave a presentation on Representation and General Value Functions (GVFs).
Sep 18th 2020
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With the continued support of the Government of Alberta and Alberta Innovates, we’re excited to continue our role in leading the province’s economic recovery.
Sep 18th 2020
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In an announcement at the Amii office in downtown Edmonton today, the Government of Alberta affirmed its support for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Sep 17th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week six videos now.
Sep 15th 2020
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Amii is proud to announce that Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Martha White (Assistant Professor, University of Alberta) is a recipient of the 2020 Killam Accelerator Research Award.
Sep 15th 2020
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Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
Sep 10th 2020
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Amii Fellow-in-residence Russ Greiner (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) is seeking potential projects this semester for students in his course on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) at the University of Alberta.
Sep 9th 2020
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Hear panelists and speakers share insights and unique stories on how they bring innovation into their workplaces and stay on top of the innovation game in their industries.
Sep 2nd 2020
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Earlier this year, Amii offered our expertise as part of the Roche Data Science Coalition (RDSC), a group of organizations committed to developing solutions to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sep 1st 2020
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Do you want a solid foundation in machine learning? Sit in on an online course being offered this fall by Amii Fellow Lili Mou.
Aug 27th 2020
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A course taught by Amii Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Matthew E. Taylor will soon be made available to anyone with an internet connection.
Aug 26th 2020
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We partner with companies of all sizes, across industries, to drive innovation strategy and provide practical guidance and advice, corporate training and talent recruitment services. The true potential of AI is unlocked when you build internal capabilities, and that’s where we excel.
Need proof? Read more about the many companies we work with.
Aug 25th 2020
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Amii Fellow Alona Fyshe will be moderating a panel discussion of Canadian female tech leaders in the upcoming Women in AI (WAI) Global Summit.
Aug 18th 2020
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On July 31, 2020, Amii researcher (under the supervision of Amii Fellow and UAlberta Professor of Computing Science Greg Kondrak) Yixing Luan presented Leveraging Translations for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Aug 17th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week five videos now.
Aug 14th 2020
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Popular Science recently shone a light on game-playing AI, as well as Amii researchers' contributions, in their article "How computers beat us at our own games".
Aug 11th 2020
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Check out This Month at Amii, our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and opportunities to get involved!
Aug 7th 2020
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In a media release published on August 7, 2020, FunnelAI and Amii have announced a partnership to expedite FunnelAI’s high-tech innovation and growth to fuel their complex AI solutions for global expansion.
Aug 6th 2020
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DLRL brings together graduate students, post-docs and professionals to learn about deep learning and reinforcement learning. Learn about Amii's involvement at this year’s event.
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