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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.
Apr 11th 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. The research project is supported by Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt.
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changed the public’s perception of what AI language models can do, instantly making most previous benchmarks seem out of date, and the excitement and intensity of working in a fast-moving field like AI.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 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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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
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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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.
Jan 16th 2024
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Congratulations to Amii Alum Roberto Vega, research supervisor Russ Greiner (Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair), and collaborator Leonardo Flores who were recently awarded the Forecasting 2022 Best Paper Award for their paper, “SIMLR: Machine Learning inside the SIR Model for Covid-19 forecasting”.
Dec 20th 2023
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MSc. graduate Revan MacQueen shares his three favourite insights from the conference.
Dec 18th 2023
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Learn how Amii and Telus are teaming up to strengthen Canada's communication network and more of the latest news from the world of AI
Dec 18th 2023
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Under the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, Amii is building a high-powered compute infrastructure to support advancements in Canadian ML research. Read more about the power of compute, Amii's unique compute needs and why computing infrastructure is essential to advancing research.
Dec 4th 2023
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Learn more about the research and work of Geoffrey Rockwell, one of the latest Fellows to join Amii’s team of world-class researchers. Geoffrey is a professor in both Media Tech Studies and in the philosophy department at the University of Alberta.
Nov 16th 2023
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Read our November monthly update on Alberta’s AI ecosystem. Featured this month: Impact Report & New U of A Faculty Positions.
Nov 6th 2023
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Amii’s 2023 Impact Report explores our Top 12 AI Trends of the year, offering a glimpse into the growing popularity of AI and highlighting how Amii is leading the way in shaping a positive AI future — for good and for all.
Oct 31st 2023
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This technical breakdown explores a new method for identifying sleeve incidents in shale resource oil production using machine learning, developed by Amii and Kobold Completions Inc.
Oct 24th 2023
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In a year of record wildfires across Canada, Amii researchers have developed an AI model that can help predict the risk of new ignitions and help fire crews respond quickly.
Oct 24th 2023
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Why does AI make the predictions that it does? Amii researcher Alona Fyshe explores AI interpretability: its importance, current approaches, and known limitations.
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