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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.
Dec 31st 2023
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Amii's media highlights for 2023.
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 20th 2023
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MSc. graduate Revan MacQueen shares his three favourite insights from the conference.
Dec 18th 2023
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Learn how Amii and Telus are teaming up to strengthen Canada's communication network and more of the latest news from the world of AI
Dec 15th 2023
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How can you help your child prepare for an AI-enabled future? Amii experts weigh in on how you can engage your child through conversations and activities.
Dec 13th 2023
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Learn more about the research and work of Bailey Kacsmar, one of the latest Fellows to join Amii’s team of world-class researchers. Hear Bailey talk about the importance of human-centred privacy in machine learning, and tackling the "privacy paradox."
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.
Dec 4th 2023
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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.
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.
Nov 16th 2023
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Read our November monthly update on Alberta’s AI ecosystem. Featured this month: Impact Report & New U of A Faculty Positions.
Nov 16th 2023
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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.
Nov 14th 2023
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Check out one of Amii's latest Fellows talking about her groundbreaking work in visual anomaly detection, how to use AI for healthcare while maintaining patient privacy, and her thoughts on the future of AI models in medicine.
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.
Nov 2nd 2023
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Learn more about Mark Schmidt's work into optimization in machine learning, computer vision and other applications, and how the Fellowship will allow him to advance it.
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 26th 2023
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Cam Linke, Amii CEO, received the Alumni Horizon Award from the University of Alberta for his professional achievements and contributions to community in a ceremony held at the Citadel Theatre on October 25.
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 24th 2023
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Hundreds of AI researchers, students, enthusiasts and industry leaders gathered this past weekend to celebrate TechAid.
Oct 24th 2023
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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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