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January 12, 2018

It’s difficult for most of us to imagine a world where artificial intelligence, or AI, researchers succeed in populating the planet with intelligent…

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December 6, 2017

The shape of our neurons may indicate our brains actually employ a type of learning, dubbed “deep learning,” that was developed to drive artificial…

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December 1, 2017

With the advent of artificial intelligence, creative thinking will become even more critical, writes the University of Toronto's Greg Wells,…

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November 29, 2017

There are bound to be critics, but deep learning “godfather” and head Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton says his latest contribution to the…

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November 14, 2017

The marriage of artificial intelligence, or AI, and music at the University of Toronto attracted worldwide attention last year when researchers…

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November 8, 2017

Sanja Fidler has a back-of-the-envelope way to track Toronto’s rapid emergence as a global centre for artificial intelligence, or AI: the number…

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November 2, 2017

Geoffrey Hinton may be the "godfather" of deep learning, a suddenly hot field of artificial intelligence, or AI – but that doesn't mean…