Episode 5: Alberta Innovation

[#TheAiEdge] 28.Jul.2021

Guests: Nicole Janssen, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, AltaML; Bill Tam, COO & Co-Founder, Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster; Michael Bowling, Research Team Lead, DeepMind, Professor, University of Alberta and Richard Sutton, Chief Scientific Advisor, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, Professor, University of Alberta.

Alberta may be known for its oil and gas, but amid fluctuating oil prices and climate change concerns, the province is being recognized for its expertise in a new field– artificial intelligence.

On this episode of #TheAiEdge, find out why reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton chose Alberta as the destination for his research twenty years ago. Plus, Michael Bancroft speaks with researchers, technologists, and business leaders from The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster, altaml, and DeepMind on how the technology is shaping the future of the province.

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