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AI Experts Discuss The Possibility of Another AI Winter

The term AI Winter, first appeared in 1984 having been discussed at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. This discussion then saw a rise in pessimism and a reduction of funding. We ask AI Experts if there could be another on the way....

Women in AI

Female Pioneers in Computer Science You May Not Know - Part 2

For Ada Lovelace Day, we looked at the female pioneers in Computer Science. Included - Katie Bouman, Grace Hopper, Radia Perlman & more....

Generative Models Research

Generative Models - Top Videos & New Papers

For a model to be "Generative" must fit in a class of statistical models which contrast against discriminative models. Simply, a generative model is one that can generate new data after learning from the dataset. VAE’s & GANs are the most popular types of generative models....

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5 Turing Award Winners You May Not Know

With over 70 recipients thus far, many people may not be that aware of some of the bight minds that have been awarded the AM Turing Award. Due to this, we have written a list of just 5 we think you should know more about....

Women in AI

Female Pioneers in Computer Science You May Not Know

We take a look at some of the Women who helped pioneer the Computer Science & Engineering Community....

Top Women in AI

250+ Directory of Influential Women Advancing AI in 2020

We're back with the next blog in of our Women in AI series, but this time we decided to take it to the next level and make it a directory. Why? Because there are simply too many brilliant women working in the field for small lists!...

Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning 101 - Experts Explain

We asked some of our AI experts and thought leaders to walk us through Reinforcement Learning. Covering everything from agents to video games and more....

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Bengio, Hinton & LeCun AI Panel - Flashback Video

RE•WORK brought together the ‘Godfathers of AI’, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their first-ever shared AI Panel....

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How is OpenAI tackling AI?

We sat down with Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, to discuss the current challenges faced across industry in regard to Deep Learning and some of the advancements on the horizon....

Event Highlights

Deep Learning and Responsible AI Advancements in Montreal

A summary of Day 2 of the hugely successful Deep Learning Summit and Responsible AI Summit in Montreal....

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Deep Learning & Cognition - A Keynote from Yoshua Bengio

Keynote summary and video from Deep Learning and AI pioneer, Yoshua Bengio....

Reinforcement Learning

Doina Precup presents the latest on Reinforcement Learning

Doina Precup, Research Team Lead at DeepMind shared the latest developments in Reinforcement Learning and how it can be used as a tool for building knowledge bases for AI Agents....

few shot learning

Hugo Larochelle - The Past, Present, and Future of Few-Shot Learning

Hugo Larochelle discusses few-shot learning, recent advancements in the field and future research developments we can expect....

Women in AI

The Landscape of AI in Montreal: Interview with Doina Precup, DeepMind

‘I’ve always been interested in AI because I love sci-fi books and movies, and I saw lots of friendly robots interacting with people doing nice things for them’. - Doina Precup...

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Deep Learning in Montreal: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton Panel

At the Deep Learning Summit in Montreal in October 2017, we saw Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton come together to share their most cutting edge research progressions as well as discussing the landscape of AI and the deep learning ecosystem in Canada....

Event Highlights

Hear From AI Experts: What Did You Miss From Geoffrey Hinton, Sara Hooker, Shane Gu & More?

If you talk to anyone in Neural Nets and ask what function to use, they say you should pick a method where you give an input and compute the derivative of how much...

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Interview: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton

For the first time ever, RE•WORK brought together the ‘Godfathers of AI’ to appear not only at the same event, but on a joint panel discussion....

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Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a renowned figure in the deep learning field. His titles include Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Operations Research at the Université de Montréal, head of the...

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Deep Learning with Hugo Larochelle, Twitter Cortex

Hugo Larochelle is Research Scientist at Twitter Cortex, and Assistant Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke. Prior to this, he spent two years in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Toronto,...