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AI and ML in Edmonton

Not sure what this means for the Province or for YEG but a deal with an East Indian company……
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Prodapt Announces Strategic Expansion in Alberta

Prodapt, a global leader in telecom-native services and AI-driven transformation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta to expand its operations in the province.
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One big piece of AI news is that the international Reinforcement Learning Conference was happening about a month ago at U of A. Besides seeing everyone out on campus, I saw a lot of people from all over the US and Canada posting about it later online. I kind of worry that U of A's AI core / Amii are hitching their reputations to an approach that seems rather fragile to me, but it sure seems to have put us on the map. The so-called Alberta Plan is probably the most prominent piece of RL-maximalist writing out there, next to "Welcome to the Era of Experience" (which was also written by Rich Sutton and a former PhD student of his—so very Albertan).

Only partly related, but the Bio Sci department's new hire in AI/ML for ecology and evolution has either arrived or should be arriving soon.
 
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‘We have to be pragmatists’: federal government invests almost $29M in Edmonton AI

An Edmonton-based artificial intelligence company is now slated to become a player on the global stage for AI advancements as the federal government announces almost $29 million into resources and training for tech.
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And that’s what happens when the PM is a local boy and he holds his Caucus meetings in YEG! All those years of the PM’s and our Premier’s dolling out bucks to other cities. Wouldn’t be surprise if other Fed announcements come out while the meetings are still here.

*EDIT* - doesn’t Smitty and her Merry gang of fools have to “approve” Carney bucks first before we get them?
 
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What rose from the ashes of DeepMind Alberta​

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What rose from the ashes of DeepMind Alberta - The Logic

DeepMind’s arrival in Alberta put it on the AI map. When it left, some feared it would be a major blow to the province’s ambitions in the sector. It wasn’t.
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I still have mixed feelings about being so closely associated with reinforcement learning in particular. But I do think that what's going on here—building AI-driven products that people might actually use, or that go into industrial processes—is probably a smarter bet than the Silicon Valley-style "we're going to build a machine god"-type thinking.
 
There are going to be a lot of Application-Specific AI ventures in the coming months and years that will change society (hopefully) for the better -- it needs very close scrutiny and monitoring from engaged government. We have to corral *bad-actors before they get legs. The change is bound to make the Industrial Revolution look like something more aligned with the stone age and the shakeup is going to affect each and every living thing starting now.
 
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What rose from the ashes of DeepMind Alberta​

thelogic.co

What rose from the ashes of DeepMind Alberta - The Logic

DeepMind’s arrival in Alberta put it on the AI map. When it left, some feared it would be a major blow to the province’s ambitions in the sector. It wasn’t.
thelogic.co thelogic.co

I still have mixed feelings about being so closely associated with reinforcement learning in particular. But I do think that what's going on here—building AI-driven products that people might actually use, or that go into industrial processes—is probably a smarter bet than the Silicon Valley-style "we're going to build a machine god"-type thinking.
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Richard Sutton’s own words.

At the same time, Sutton had been talking to two other research leaders at UAlberta, Michael Bowling and Patrick Pilarski, about building closer ties to the private sector. “We are a world-class research place,” Sutton says they thought at the time. “Why don’t we do some world-class company building?”
 
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