Technical News
Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.
![](/media/images/News.height-10.png)
Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.
Nov 8th 2023
News
On October 6, Ali Salman from Lawtiq.com presented “Empowering Investment Decisions: The AI Revolution at Lawtiq.com" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 6th 2023
News
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
News
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 30th 2023
News
ChatGPT and Large Language Models were the talk of this year's Association for Computational Linguistics conference. Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe shares her insights into the different opinions, hopes and concerns for the future of LLMS.
Oct 25th 2023
News
On September 15, Russ Greiner —a professor at the University of Alberta — presented “Learning Models that Predict Objective, Actionable Labels" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 12th 2023
News
On November 28, Dr. Hongyuan Mei —Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago — presented “Language Models as Lego Blocks of Reasoning" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 12th 2023
News
On September 11, Anna Koop —Research Engineer at Google DeepMind — presented “Experiential Learning with Partition-Tree Weighting and MAML" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 12th 2023
News
On Jan 12, Michael Przystupa —a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta — presented “Advances in Data Driven Teleoperation: A synthesis of previous works & our own" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 27th 2023
News
On September 1, Stephen Montes Casper —a PhD Candidate at MIT — presented “Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 20th 2023
News
On August 25, Bram Grooten —a PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology — presented “Efficient Focus for Autonomous Agents" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 13th 2023
News
On August 11, Mike Ogezi, MSc student at the University of Alberta, presented "Grounding Concepts to Vision with Visual Descriptions" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 6th 2023
News
On August 4, Faheem Khan, CEO of ARO Robotics, presented "AI and autonomy-based multitasking robots for Industry 4.0" at the AI Seminar.
Aug 30th 2023
News
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 23rd 2023
News
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.
Jul 4th 2023
News
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 28th 2023
News
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
News
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 14th 2023
News
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.
May 31st 2023
News
On April 28, Jiamin He —MSc student at the University of Alberta — presented “Consistent Emphatic Temporal-Difference Learning" at the AI Seminar.
May 3rd 2023
News
On April 14, Sunil Vedula—founder of Nanoprecise Sci Corp — presented “IoT + AI enabled predictive maintenance & operational excellence for asset intensive industries ’" at the AI Seminar.
Apr 26th 2023
News
On March 31, Nathan Sturtevant —Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair & Director — & Arta Seify — AI developer on Nightingale — presented “Living in Procedural Worlds: Creature Movement and Spawning in ‘Nightingale’" at the AI Seminar.
Apr 20th 2023
News
On March 24, Qingfeng Lan— PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “Memory-efficient Reinforcement Learning with Knowledge Consolidation " at the AI Seminar.
Apr 5th 2023
News
On March 10th, Khurram Javed— PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “The Big World Hypothesis and its Ramifications on Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Apr 5th 2023
News
On March 17, Yuqiao Wen— PhD student at the University of Alberta — presented “f-Divergence Minimization for Sequential Knowledge Distillation" at the AI Seminar.
Looking to build AI capacity? Need a speaker at your event?