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Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award
By Jeremy Kahn
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Three computer scientists who laid the foundations for many of the recent advances in artificial intelligence are being honoured with this year’s Turing Award, considered the field’s highest accolade.
Geoff Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto and a senior researcher at Alphabet Inc.’s Google Brain, Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University and the chief AI scientist at Facebook Inc., and Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal as well as co-founder of AI company Element AI Inc., will share this year’s award, which is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Read more on Boomberg
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Landmark $100-million gift to the University of Toronto from Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman will power Canadian innovation and help researchers
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The gift will help construct a 750,000-square-foot complex designed to anchor U of T’s unique cluster of world-leading artificial intelligence scientists and biomedical experts, its world-class entrepreneurship network, and the country’s largest concentration of student- and faculty-led startups.
The gift will also support the launch of the newly conceived Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, whose mission will be to explore and address the ethical and societal implications of AI and other emerging technologies. The Institute will facilitate cross-disciplinary research and collaboration and will draw on U of T’s signature strengths in the sciences, humanities and social sciences to explore the benefits and challenges that AI, biotechnology, and other technological advances present for our economy, our society and our day-to-day lives.
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Company of the week: Aggregate Intellect Inc.
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We are proud to launch a new service for corporates in Toronto and nearby: advanced machine learning workshops and training. This builds on the growing momentum and strong traction in the AI community in Toronto.
We leverage our extensive network of experts from academia and industry to enable and equip corporate teams with practical knowledge and actionable advice. Topics include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), Computer Vision (CV), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Graph-based Models. Our experts speak both industry and academia. Let's talk!
Read more on A-I's LinkedIn page or website or contact Amir at amir@a-i.science.
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Why measuring accuracy is hard (and very important) - Part 1
by Bradley Arsenault
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Why is measuring the accuracy of a machine learning model hard? So many machine learning models would appear to have a very simple definition of accuracy.
Let's go over a simple example - an algorithm that detects diabetes. The algorithm reports that an individual does, in fact, have diabetes. That prediction is either correct (the individual did, in fact, have diabetes), or the prediction is wrong (the individual did not have diabetes). It would seem like accuracy is defined by a pretty simple question: how many of the predictions were actually correct. It would seem that measuring the accuracy of a model should be straightforward.
Continue to read the article here.
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An Overview of National AI Strategies
by Tim Dutton
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Canada was the first country to release a national AI strategy. Detailed in the 2017 federal budget, the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy is a five-year, C$125 million plan to invest in AI research and talent. The strategy has four goals: (read more)
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York University, Deloitte, and U of T are hiring.
Check our 10-sec pitch and job page here.
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Join our next meeting and enjoy 3 presentations:
Talk 1 - How to launch a product powered by ML
Sabina Stanescu (Principal Data Scientist at Altair engineering)
Talk 2 - AI for a complex world
Philippe Beaudoin (SVP Research Group and Co-Founder at Element AI)
Lightning Talk - How to measure models better
Brad Arsenault (Founder Electric Brain)
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