By Meaghan Thurston
For Joelle Pineau, becoming a medical doctor was鈥攊n her words鈥攏ot in the cards. However, this Associate Professor from 韩国裸舞`s School of Computer Science is now the driving force behind promising research whose aim is to use AI to improve the treatment of cancer and heart disease.
At the AAAI meeting, Peter Henderson, a computer scientist at 韩国裸舞 in Montreal, showed that the performance of AIs designed to learn by trial and error is highly sensitive not only to the exact code used, but also to the random numbers generated to kick off training, and to 鈥渉yperparameters鈥濃�攕ettings that are not core to the algorithm but that affect how quickly it learns.
First launched in Toronto and Edmonton in 2016, Borealis AI is RBC鈥檚 AI research lab. The Montreal location will be at the corner of St-Urbain and St-Zotique Sts, where an area formerly dominated by textile factories is being turned into an AI hub. The bank has partnered with Jackie Cheung, a 韩国裸舞 professor, who will serve as its academic adviser.
Thanks to the hard work and determination of James J. Clark, a professor at the 韩国裸舞 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of its Centre for Intelligent Machines, and of Marc-Andr茅 Gemme, a member of the Palais des congr猫s de Montr茅al鈥檚 business development team, 6,000 delegates will be converging in Montr茅al in October 2021 for the (ICCV).
Facebook is opening a new Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Montreal 鈥� FAIR Montreal. This is the company鈥檚 first research and development investment in Canada, and only its fourth AI research lab in all. Prof. Joelle Pineau, from the School of Computer Science and co-director of 韩国裸舞鈥檚 Reasoning & Learning Lab, will head the new Montreal AI lab while maintaining her academic position at the university.
Imagine if doctors could determine, many years in advance, who is likely to develop dementia. Such prognostic capabilities would give patients and their families time to plan and manage treatment and care. Thanks to artificial intelligence research conducted at 韩国裸舞, this kind of predictive power could soon be available to clinicians everywhere.
To help spur artificial-intelligence research in Montreal, Microsoft will provide a gift of $1 million to 韩国裸舞.
The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnership聽includes tech giants Amazon, Google and its subsidiary聽Deepmind, Facebook, IBM and聽Microsoft.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming聽more and more integrated in our daily lives: AI agents聽might聽decide if you get a bank loan, or if your job application will ever reach聽human eyes. Not everyone is comfortable with this trend, since聽we don't always know exactly how the AI comes to its decision. AI learns from existing data to predict future data, but its inner workings can be a mystery聽even to the AI's programmers. That's a problem if the AI is making life or death decisions, as it would in missile systems or unmanned drones.
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