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Newsletter #7

Local news

Happy 1 Year #TDLS!

Toronto Deep Learning Series (#TDLS) is a community of intellectually curious individuals centred around technical review and discussion of advances in machine learning. See here a post of Amir's about this and also another one about how you can contribute.

Women in Data Science Toronto Conference 2019

We were able to secure a discount code for "Women in Data Science Toronto Conference": use AIGEEKS20 for 20% off.
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VSAI 2019-2020 Competition Is Now Open!

The Vector Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI) are merit-based awards that recognize top candidates pursuing AI-related studies in master’s programs recognized by the Vector Institute or who are following an individualized study path that is demonstrably AI-focused in Ontario, Canada. Scholarships will be awarded to students in both core technical programs and complementary fields such as business or health care. Read more →

Local company of the week - DarwinAI

DarwinAI is a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence startup based in Waterloo (ON).

Their technology, stemming from years of scholarship by the academic team from the University of Waterloo, uses ‘AI to build AI’ in order to dramatically reduce the size of deep neural networks and facilitate ‘explainable’ deep learning.

Watch here the DarwinAI 2018 NVidia Inception pitch by Sheldon Fernandez, the #AIGeeks guest for this month.

Jobs

York University is hiring a Part-Time Instructor in Big Data Analytics.

Richard is hiring a deep learning instructor and a professor of intelligent agents and reinforcement learning for the program of Continuing Education at the University of Toronto.

Check our 10-sec pitch and job page here.

From around the world

An AI for the person you wish you were

by Philippe Beaudoin

The most pressing issues we face as a species are global. We need to work together to figure out what the world needs in order to return to equilibrium, to become sustainable again, and, eventually, to thrive.

Science is our greatest ally in this endeavour, but it's not enough. Only deliberate, well thought-out collaborative efforts can get us where we need to be.

Continue to read the article
Philippe Beaudoin will be a guest for the April #AIGeeks meeting

Introduction and Overview with TensorFlow

By Lex Fridman

As part of the MIT Deep Learning series of lectures and GitHub tutorials, we are covering the basics of using neural networks to solve problems in computer vision, natural language processing, games, autonomous driving, robotics, and beyond.

This blog post provides an overview of deep learning in 7 architectural paradigms with links to TensorFlow tutorials for each. Read more →

How to Choose Your First AI Project
by Andrew Ng

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform every industry, just as electricity did 100 years ago. It will create $13 trillion of GDP growth by 2030, according to McKinsey, most of which will be in non-internet sectors including manufacturing, agriculture, energy, logistics, and education. Read more →

AIGeeks news

Presents

Here are the prizes for our March meeting.

Joke of the week

Human: What do we want!?
Computer: Natural language processing!
Human: When do we want it!?
Computer: When do we want what?

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Thank you to Csaba Tomcsak for design and Verb Bonilla for editing.

Artificial Intelligence Geeks is a Canadian not-for-profit organization dedicated to making the world a better place using AI. See more here.