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A collection of 19 posts

AI Experts Discuss The Possibility of Another AI Winter
AI EXPERT BLOGS

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....

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
22 October 2020
Female Pioneers in Computer Science You May Not Know - Part 2
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....

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
13 October 2020
Generative Models - Top Videos & New Papers
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....

  • Hollie Jaques
    Hollie Jaques
8 October 2020
5 Turing Award Winners You May Not Know
AI Pioneers

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....

  • Luke Kenworthy
    Luke Kenworthy
16 July 2020
Female Pioneers in Computer Science You May Not Know
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....

  • Luke Kenworthy
    Luke Kenworthy
28 April 2020
250+ Directory of Influential Women Advancing AI in 2020
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!...

  • Luke Kenworthy
    Luke Kenworthy
21 April 2020
Reinforcement Learning 101 - Experts Explain
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....

  • Luke Kenworthy
    Luke Kenworthy
15 April 2020
Bengio, Hinton & LeCun AI Panel - Flashback Video
AI Pioneers

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....

  • Luke Kenworthy
    Luke Kenworthy
24 January 2020
How is OpenAI tackling AI?
AI Pioneers

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....

  • Ellie Lucy
    Ellie Lucy
7 November 2019
Deep Learning and Responsible AI Advancements in Montreal
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....

  • Hollie Jaques
    Hollie Jaques
25 October 2019
Deep Learning & Cognition - A Keynote from Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneers

Deep Learning & Cognition - A Keynote from Yoshua Bengio

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

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
24 October 2019
Doina Precup presents the latest on Reinforcement Learning
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....

  • Hollie Jaques
    Hollie Jaques
24 October 2019
Hugo Larochelle - The Past, Present, and Future of Few-Shot Learning
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....

  • Luke Kenworthy
    Luke Kenworthy
24 October 2019
The Landscape of AI in Montreal: Interview with Doina Precup, DeepMind
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...

  • Hollie Jaques
    Hollie Jaques
23 July 2019
Deep Learning in Montreal: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton Panel
AI Pioneers

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....

  • Pip Curtis
    Pip Curtis
19 June 2019
Hear From AI Experts: What Did You Miss From Geoffrey Hinton, Sara Hooker, Shane Gu & More?
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
27 October 2018
Interview: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton
AI Pioneers

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....

  • RE•WORK
    RE•WORK
10 October 2017
Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneers

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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
11 August 2016
Deep Learning with Hugo Larochelle, Twitter Cortex
AI Pioneers

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,...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
26 April 2016
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