AMII
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- Where does cutting edge AI come from?
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Federal AI Strategy Development
- Ranking of AI and ML: CMU, Tsinghua, University of Alberta, Cornell University, Technion, MIT, UT Austin, JKUST, Berkeley, UMass, UMich, UCLA, Stanford, etc;
- China AI Strategy has moved Tsinghua from 10thto 2nd
- AMii focuses on efforts of 4 areas
- Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
- $125 million across Canada to attract and retain academic talent
- Recognizes Canada’s centers of AI excellence: Mila (Montreal), The Vector Institute (Toronto) and Amii (Edmonton)
- First cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs includes 29 researchers at institutions across Canada
- Amii has diverse expertise in machine intelligence
- Algorithmic game theory
- Algorithms and theory
- Bio/medical informatics
- Dana mining & analysis, etc;
- Machine Intelligence Achievements
- Pioneer of reinforcement learning
- First group to beat poker pros at heads-up no-limit texas hold’em
- Solved game of checkers
- Academic origins of AlphaGo and the Atari Game Project
- Developed UCT algorithm at the heart of many advancements in games
- Thailand National Innovation Award for Tuberculosis Diagnosis
- System capable of passing Japanese Bar exam
- Open-source community centered around adaptive prosthetic limbs
- Amii explores through world-class research and training
- Amii Explores: pushes the bounds of scientific knowledge by enabling world-class research and training and facilitating knowledge, technology and talent transfer from academia to industry
- Amii Educates to boost intelligence literacy: courses, workshops & seminars
- Amii provides a range of meetups, events and educational opportunities to help drive machine intelligence literacy for Alberta workers and businesses—build, reskill, upskill, and retain machine intelligence expertise in Alberta
- Management level courses
- Technical level certification
- Bespoke curriculum development
- Amii Innovates: guide businesses on path to machine intelligence adoption by helping them develop strategies, shift processes, and systems and build in-house knowledge and teams
- Connect with amii:
- Q&A:
- Will we catch up to China? No
- China, US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia lead the world on collecting data/information
- Model-free RL Atari Game Learning
- Google’s DeepMind Deep Q-learning learns how to play the game after watching the screen
- Big Data Challenges
- Square kilometer array
- DNA transistor
- Environmental monitoring fluxnet
- How are you able to determine what to keep / throw away
- NCAA Football Clusters
- Challenge: figure out division in NCAA
- Run a clustering algorithm on the schedule
- Model visualization changes based on what information you are trying to extract
- Diagnosing ADHD
- Machine learning classifier uses a participant’s resting state fMRI scan to diagnose the individual into one of 3 categories: healthy control, ADHD combined type, ADHD inattentive type
- Used participant’s personal characteristic data: collection age, gender, handedness, performance IQ, verbal IQ, and full scare IQ, FMRI data
- Image-based glioma biopsy
- Compute S-transform frequency spectrum for each pixel, the average over all directions to get 1D spectra for each tumor
- Build multi-frequency classifier based on these labeled cases
- In these measurement results, BLUE 30 co-deleted 1p/19q, GREEN 24 intact 1p/19q
- Results: 95-96%
- Optimizing water treatment control
- Use machine learning to find separators in the data
- Natural language & approximate semantics: use the amount of google searchers also in google translate
- COLIEE Statute Law Challenge
- Statute: if a person in order to allow a principal to escape imminent danger to the principal’s person, reputation or property, the Manager shall not be liable to compensate for damages…
- Question: in cases where an individual rescues another person from getting hit by a car by…
- Query case àcase law judgements àhow to pick the ones to be noticed and the lawyer will notice in the count
- Why we need explanatory AI systems
- Funny car cartoon on automation: “Does your car have any idea why my car pulled it over?”
- MYCIN expert knowledge
- Rich Sutton, weak versus strong methods
- Methods that scale with computation are the future of AI
- Learning a model to classify images
- classifier to distinguish dogs and cats
- Experiments
- Word deletion experiments
- Green words = positive
- Building a model of language to explain
- Summary
- World leading research group
- Highlights of game playing, reinforcement learning, NLP, XAI
- Expanding capacity, building industrial collaboration function
- Industrial projects with DeepMind, DeepMind Health, Google Brain, Mitsubishi, Borealis AI, Alberta Treasury Branch, VW Group
- Eager to build sustainable industrial relationships to continually refresh “line of sight” to potential high impact applications
- Q & A:
- Generating automatic models instead of analytically building them
- If you get 2 different explanations and they are contradictions, then what is the model you have to create to compromise the two
Edmonton’sArtificial Intelligence Ecosystem: Research & Business:
- Path of how businesses are created revolving AI in Edmonton
- AI is a transformative technology
- AMII:
- U of A’s chinook challenges
- IBM’s deep blue defeats Kasparov
- Reinforcement Learning Author at U of A (Sutton)
- DeepMind’s AlphaGo beats Sedol
- Deep Stack Beats Texas Hold’em (Bowling)
- DeepMind Opens Lab in Edmonton
- AI Can Pass Japanese Bar Exam
- csranks.orgàselect AI AND ML
- Government commits $100 million to AI companies
- Albert’s AI/ML Business Strategy Plan: Research & Development, Talent, Infrastructure, Industry Solutions, Market Presence
- Companies that focus on AI in Edmonton: scope AR, AltaML, testfire labs, serious: labs,zept, ATB financial, Promethean Labs, oneBridge, Telus, Jobber, Servus credit union, PCL, ZEPT, Vadu, NTWIST, Drugbank, frettable ,SAM, Health Gauge, Darkhorse Analytics
- Four Key components to build a successful AI/ML company:
- Technical talent & IP, product development & business skills, industry domain expertise, data = successful AI/ML companies
- Alberta àarchitecture, engineering, & construction, health, financial services & insurance, energy & utilities, transportation & logistics
- CEO of Japanese company needs to shut down a nuclear plant àsending in robots to disarm it
- Trying to create an AI industry in the Edmonton area
- A lot of those who get successful at AI have a HUGE amount of data
- Why Edmonton?
- Great place to live
- Vibrant quality of life àlargest snowball life in the world
- City of Entrepreneurs
- Economic leadership
- Growing innocation community
- City best place in Canada for youth to work
- Tops in housing affordability
- Top ranked research and educational institutions
- Bruce Alton: [email protected]
- Daylin Breen: [email protected]