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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.
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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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
May 7th 2024
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Check out the advancements being presented by Amii researchers at the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representation.
May 2nd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Mar 26th 2024
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In this month's episode, Alona talks about how ChatGPT changed the public’s perception of what AI language models can do, instantly making most previous benchmarks seem out of date, and the excitement and intensity of working in a fast-moving field like AI.
Mar 18th 2024
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Google.org announces new research grants to support critical AI research in Canada focused on areas such as sustainability and the responsible development of AI. The grant will provide a total of $2.7 million in grant funding to Amii, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the International Center of Expertise of Montreal on AI (CEIMIA).
Feb 27th 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Feb 27th 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Feb 27th 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Feb 26th 2024
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Artificial intelligence is already proving to be a powerful tool for the classroom. But it can be much more than that. On the latest episode of the Approximately Correct podcast, we talk about the future of AI in education, and how our technology changes the way we think.
Feb 22nd 2024
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This year, Amii researchers and students are presenting advancements in game theory, federated learning and synthetic data at this year's AAAI conference. Check out the research being presented in Vancouver this month.
Feb 21st 2024
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Learn more about the research and work of Dr. Patrick Pilarski, Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Patrick co-leads the BLINC Lab at the University of Alberta, and talks about how artificial intelligence is helping create the next generation of prosthetic limbs that respond to their user's needs.
Feb 13th 2024
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Learn more about the two newest Canada CIFAR AI Chairs working with Amii, Elina Robeva and Geoffrey Rockwell
Jan 30th 2024
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Amii and the University of Alberta are recruiting 20 interdisciplinary researchers to accelerate research and spur discoveries, benefitting all areas of life.
Jan 23rd 2024
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Jan 23rd 2024
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When Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Mike Bowling and his colleagues started using old Atari video games from the 1980s to test his reinforcement learning (RL) agents, he didn’t know it would eventually become a benchmark used by researchers worldwide.
Jan 23rd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
Jan 22nd 2024
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Marlos C. Machado, Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair delivered his presentation "Flying Balloons in the Stratosphere of AI” at the Jasper Dark Festival, an annual festival celebrating solar wonder and stellar delights in Jasper National Park. Here Machado reflects on his experience at the festival, connects stratospheric balloons to space science, and reinforces the interdisciplinary nature of science.
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