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Oct 29th 2024
News
Rich Sutton’s new path for AI | Approximately Correct Podcast
In the latest episode of Approximately Correct, reinforcement learning legend Rich Sutton (Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair & Chief Scientific Advisor) talks about what he thinks is holding AI research back.
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Sep 27th 2024
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Game Changer: Revolutionizing Video Game AI with Artificial Agency’s Andrew Butcher | Approximately Correct Podcast
In the latest episode of Approximately Correct, Andrew Butcher, co-founder of Artificial Agency, joins hosts Alona Fyshe and Scott Lilwall to discuss how his company is pushing the boundaries of AI in game development.
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Aug 28th 2024
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AI-Powered Water Systems with Martha White | Approximately Correct Podcast
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.
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Jul 24th 2024
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Humans Make AI Better with Matt Taylor | Approximately Correct Podcast
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.
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Jul 10th 2024
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Instruction Tuning: Making Large Language Models Better at Many Tasks
Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe shares her insights on how instruction tuning makes LLMs more useful for a variety of applications.
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May 28th 2024
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The Deal with Disinformation with James Wright | Approximately Correct Podcast
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.
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Apr 8th 2024
News
Cracking the Conference Code
Amii Fellows share tips on how to make the most of your conference experience.
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Mar 26th 2024
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How Chat GPT Ruined Alona’s Christmas | Approximately Correct Podcast
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.
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Feb 26th 2024
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AI Will Change the Way We Learn | Approximately Correct Podcast
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.
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Jan 23rd 2024
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The Untold Story of the Atari Benchmark | Approximately Correct Podcast
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.
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Jan 15th 2024
News
Introducing Approximately Correct: An AI Podcast from Amii
Amii is thrilled to launch Approximately Correct: An AI Podcast from Amii. The podcast invites listeners to go beyond the buzzwords and hear the stories behind the science, meet the people advancing technology and learn about AI’s potential to transform our world from the people on the ground.
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Dec 4th 2023
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Meet the Fellows: Geoffrey Rockwell
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.
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Nov 16th 2023
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Why doing a PhD is like training for the Olympics
Thinking of pursuing a PhD? Amii researcher Alona Fyshe explores how undertaking a PhD is like training for the Olympics, and how you can develop an Olympian state of mind.
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Oct 30th 2023
News
ACL 2023 offered duelling views on ChatGPT's promise
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.
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Oct 24th 2023
News
Interpretability: The Why of AI
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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Mar 30th 2023
News
Recommended Viewing: TED Talk with Amii's Alona Fyshe - Does AI Understand Us?
Do large language models like ChatGPT truly understand us? Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe explores this question, and how brain imaging might provide an answer, in her recent TED Talk.
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Mar 21st 2023
News
How AI & the brain can learn from each other: an Alona Fyshe keynote
Alona Fyshe presents on the similarities between the human brain & AI and how to leverage this relationship. Check out her AI Week 2022 keynote.
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Jan 23rd 2023
Research Post
Weakly-Supervised Questions for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction
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Jun 7th 2022
News
Media Release: AI Week launches new era of AI impact in Alberta
AI Week brought together more than 2,100 AI enthusiasts and professionals to connect across nearly 60 unique events, including business-focused panels and discussions, academic sessions, networking socials and celebrations.
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May 9th 2022
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Recommended Reading: Why Edmonton is a hub of AI innovation
Learn how Edmonton is gaining a reputation as a hub of innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning
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May 4th 2022
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Recommended Reading: Alona Fyshe on how studying the human brain can lead to smarter AI
Discover how Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI chair Alona Fyshe is studying the human brain to build AI that uses language better
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May 2nd 2022
News
Amii at the International Conference on Learning Representation 2022
Find out the work that Amii researchers contributed to the 2022 International Conference on Learning Representation
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Apr 14th 2022
News
AI Week brings together the world AI community
Amii has announced speakers for AI Week, May 24-27, including keynotes from Richard S. Sutton, Alona Fyshe, Martha White and Dornoosh Zoonobi & Jacob Jaremko.
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Oct 13th 2021
Research Post
Predictive Representation Learning for Language Modeling
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