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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.
Nov 28th 2022
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On Sept. 9, Bo Dai — a researcher with Google's Brain Team — presented "Representation-based Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 16th 2022
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On Sept. 2, Robert Paproski — CTO of Nanostics — presented "Lessons Learned Developing Predictive Models for Healthcare" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 10th 2022
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On August 26, Puyuan Liu — an MSc student from the University of Alberta — presented "Non-Autoregressive Unsupervised Summarization with Length-Control Algorithms" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 2nd 2022
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On August 19, Alex Murphy — a Ph.D. student from the University of Birmingham — presented "Brain + NLP > NLP? Towards the incorporation of human brain data into Natural Language Processing" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 1st 2022
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The October 2022 edition of AI Meetup focused on the legal applications of AI, feat. Amii Fellow Randy Goebel & Brett Colvin of Goodlawyer.
Oct 31st 2022
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Learn about the latest advances in computer vision and how they might help AI function in the real world with Machine Learning Resident Tina Behrouzi. She dives into the advances offered by knowledge distillation and continual learning.
Oct 26th 2022
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On August 12, Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vector Institute, presented "Decentralized Mean Field Games" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 19th 2022
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On Aug 5, Kim Solez – Professor of Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta – presented "How AI can improve human cooperation through suggesting followup action in modelled newscasts" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 12th 2022
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The September 2022 edition of AI Meetup highlighted two projects featured in Amii’s annual Impact Report, hosted by CEO Cam Linke.
Oct 11th 2022
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Understanding intelligence could be one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time, according to Amii Chief Scientific Advisor Rich Sutton. And he lays out the Alberta Plan as a roadmap to getting there.
Oct 6th 2022
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On July 22nd, Bradley Hauer – a pHD candidate at the University of Alberta – presented "Lexical Semantics: Why Theory Matter" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 6th 2022
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On July 22nd, Bradley Hauer – a pHD candidate at the University of Alberta – presented "Lexical Semantics: Why Theory Matter" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 28th 2022
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On July 15, Decebal Constantin Mocanu and Elena Mocanu, both with the University of Twente, presented "Sparse training in supervised, unsupervised, and deep reinforcement learning" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 21st 2022
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Learn about the latest advances in computer vision and how they might help AI function in the real world with Machine Learning Resident Tina Behrouzi. She looks at some of the exciting projects from this summer's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference
Sep 21st 2022
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Learn about the latest advances in computer vision and how they might help AI function in the real world with Machine Learning Resident Tina Behrouzi. She looks at some of the exciting projects from this summer's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference
Sep 16th 2022
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On Sept. 16, Katrina Kalantar – a Computational Biologist at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – presented "Methods for Improving Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 15th 2022
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This past year, our work to advance AI for Good and For All has made massive strides due to the hard work and commitment of our team, community and clients. Explore it all in our 2021.22 Impact Report.
Sep 15th 2022
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Following on major successes this year with AI Week and the renewal of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Amii has released our 2021-22 Impact Report.
Sep 9th 2022
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On June 17, 2022, Dustin Morrill, PhD student at the University of Alberta, presented "Hindsight Rational Learning for Sequential Decision-Making," at the AI Seminar.
Sep 8th 2022
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Learn from top experts, connect with like-minded individuals & give back to local causes. Tickets are now available for TechAid, a series of AI & tech-focused events.
Aug 31st 2022
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On June 10, 2022, Russ Greiner, Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair, presented "Learning Models that Predict Objective, Actionable Labels," at the AI Seminar.
Aug 16th 2022
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In May 2022, Eleni Stroulia ,from the University of Alberta's AI4Society, presented "Exploring Challenges and Opportunities for AI Across Disciplines" at the AI Seminar.
Aug 11th 2022
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On May 13, Ruchika Verma, a machine learning scientist at Amii, presented "Machine Learning to Predict Survival and Treatment Outcomes for Cancer Patients," at the AI Seminar.
Aug 10th 2022
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Virtual Gurus and Amii are partnering to integrate machine learning into talent-matching technology.
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