Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the booming field of computing research that is taking off in many academic and urban centres across Canada.
Today Montreal, which is becoming a major hub of AI development, is hosting a one-day symposium on the advances and applications of artificial intelligence.
École Polytechnique de Montréal is the location for the gathering.
This morning Michael Bowling of the University of Alberta, and DeepMInd, delivered one of the keynote talks, on ‘Artificial Intelligence Goes All-In: Computers Playing Poker’.
This afternoon Raquel Urtasun, of the University of Toronto and Uber, will talk about ‘Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars.
Canada’s federal government committed $213 million (Cdn) to fund AI and big data research at four Montreal post-secondary institutions.
The provincial government in Quebec is supporting the initiative with $100 million (Cdn) over the next five years to further the development of an AI “super-cluster” in the Montreal region.
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