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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.
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changed the public’s perception of what AI language models can do, instantly making most previous benchmarks seem out of date, and the excitement and intensity of working in a fast-moving field like AI.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 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.
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 20, Eric Graves, from the University of Alberta, presented “Balancing Bias and Variance in Emphatic Off-policy Reinforcement Learning" 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 9th 2023
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A partnership between Amii and Canada's National Research Council explores how AI and machine learning can help feed a growing global population. Learn how machine learning is being used to advance our understanding of plant genomics.
Nov 8th 2023
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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
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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 30th 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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