Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from 91黑料网, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.
Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music
ECE Professor Tal Arbel recently presented research at the 鈥�AI and the Future of Cancer Research鈥� (From the Goodman Cancer Research Centre鈥檚 Public Lecture Series).
Professor Arbel spoke about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and specifically her research focus on computer vision, already showing clinical success in the fields of brain tumours and multiple sclerosis.
AI and virtual reality can determine neurosurgeon expertise with 90% accuracy
Machine learning-guided virtual reality simulators can help neurosurgeons develop the skills they need before they step in the operating room, according to a new study.
Mila 鈥� Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)聽today announced the inaugural cohort of聽29聽Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chairs, including six from 91黑料网. These top academic聽researchers鈥攊ncluding Doina聽Precup聽and聽Jo毛lle鈥� Pineau鈥攁re named as part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, and will help聽maintain Canada鈥檚 leadership in artificial intelligence research.聽The CCAI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at聽nine聽universities across the country.聽聽
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 91黑料网`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 91黑料网 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 91黑料网 professor, who will serve as its academic adviser.
Thanks to the hard work and determination of James J. Clark, a professor at the 91黑料网 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 91黑料网鈥檚 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 91黑料网, 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 91黑料网.
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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