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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.
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.
Feb 22nd 2024
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This year, Amii researchers and students are presenting advancements in game theory, federated learning and synthetic data at this year's AAAI conference. Check out the research being presented in Vancouver this month.
Feb 21st 2024
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Learn more about the research and work of Dr. Patrick Pilarski, Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Patrick co-leads the BLINC Lab at the University of Alberta, and talks about how artificial intelligence is helping create the next generation of prosthetic limbs that respond to their user's needs.
Feb 13th 2024
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Learn more about the two newest Canada CIFAR AI Chairs working with Amii, Elina Robeva and Geoffrey Rockwell
Feb 2nd 2024
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Amii media highlights for 2024.
Jan 30th 2024
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Amii and the University of Alberta are recruiting 20 interdisciplinary researchers to accelerate research and spur discoveries, benefitting all areas of life.
Jan 29th 2024
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Apply now for incredible AI learning and networking opportunities with the prestigious DLRL Summer School.
Jan 26th 2024
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Apply now for AI4Good Lab’s summer program, open for women & gender-diverse people seeking knowledge & skills to build ML projects.
Jan 23rd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
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 22nd 2024
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Marlos C. Machado, Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair delivered his presentation "Flying Balloons in the Stratosphere of AI” at the Jasper Dark Festival, an annual festival celebrating solar wonder and stellar delights in Jasper National Park. Here Machado reflects on his experience at the festival, connects stratospheric balloons to space science, and reinforces the interdisciplinary nature of science.
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 16th 2024
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Congratulations to Amii Alum Roberto Vega, research supervisor Russ Greiner (Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair), and collaborator Leonardo Flores who were recently awarded the Forecasting 2022 Best Paper Award for their paper, “SIMLR: Machine Learning inside the SIR Model for Covid-19 forecasting”.
Jan 15th 2024
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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.
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 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.
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