Edmonton Hosts AI Knowledge Gathering

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Edmonton hosted the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit this week, bringing together people from around the world to share their knowledge.

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For the second year in a row, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) hosted Upper Bound, an in-person and virtual event inviting researchers, students, business leaders, and others interested in the world of AI.

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“Whether it’s regulation or policy or how the government should think about this… really bring all these people together to discuss this wonderful area and at the same time what’s happening around Edmonton We’re showing off something great,” Kam Linke said. CEO of Amy.

Edmonton will host more than 100 events, including symposiums and panels where researchers and others interested in how AI is being used can network, share information and ideas and seek business support. was held.

“There are start-ups and incumbents here with AI at their core, but more traditional companies like the energy sector and the banking sector are also using AI now and are starting to think about what to integrate AI into. They are,” Linke said.

Last year, Upper Bound attracted over 2,000 people from 38 countries. Linke said interest in the event has increased this year. Last year’s academic symposium had more than 500 participants, but this year there were over 1,000 participants.

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“We’re very lucky. We have a very friendly community here and we try to make the field more accessible to people. So people are very excited to be here to share. increase.”

The conference will take place May 23-26 at multiple locations around the city, including a symposium at the Edmonton Convention Center and one of many events held in downtown bars and coffee shops. was included.

“We really wanted everyone coming to the city to have the opportunity to experience a lot of the great things that are happening here in Edmonton,” Linke said.

Like many technologies, AI continues to advance at a fairly rapid rate, and Linke expects it to continue to do so, noting that along with that progress comes opportunity.

“Things like healthcare, things like food security, these are all sort of big challenges that we have, and all these advances in AI are going to help us solve some of these problems. can play a big role in,” Linke said.

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