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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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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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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 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.
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 12th 2024
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On Feb 2, Randy Duguay — CEO of Health Gauge Inc. — presented “Health Gauge: Innovating in Applied AI/ML Solutions in Digital Health" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 12th 2024
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On Feb 2, Randy Duguay — CEO of Health Gauge Inc. — presented “Health Gauge: Innovating in Applied AI/ML Solutions in Digital Health" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 5th 2024
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Amii technical staff share some of the most intriguing and exciting developments that they saw at this year's 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Mar 5th 2024
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On Feb 2, Randy Duguay — CEO of Health Gauge Inc. — presented “Health Gauge: Innovating in Applied AI/ML Solutions in Digital Health" at the AI Seminar.
Feb 27th 2024
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On Jan 26, Spencer von der Ohe —a PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “Exploring Methods for Generating and Evaluating Skill Targeted Reading Comprehension Questions" at the AI Seminar.
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.
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 17th 2024
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On December 1, Dr. David Radke — Senior Research Scientist with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) — presented “Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics" at the AI Seminar.
Jan 3rd 2024
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On November 24, Kenny Young — PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “The Benefits of Model-Based Generalization in Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Dec 20th 2023
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On November 10, Oliver Schulte — Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University — presented “Ranking and Representing Hockey Players with Deep Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Dec 7th 2023
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Take a look at the leading-edge work being presented by Amii researchers at the thirty-seventh annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference in New Orleans this week,
Dec 6th 2023
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On October 27, Amii & University of Alberta PhD student Gautham Vasan presented "Learning Sparse-Reward Tasks on Real Robots From Scratch" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 22nd 2023
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On October 17, Dr. Deepa Krishnaswamy, from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, presented “AI-derived annotations for lung cancer collections using NCI Imaging Data Commons" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 22nd 2023
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On October 20, Eric Graves, from the University of Alberta, presented “Balancing Bias and Variance in Emphatic Off-policy Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
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