Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

No aspiring or self-respecting AI researcher could take an article like this at face value. "The largest concentration of independent AI researchers in the world"? Citation needed. Better yet, data.

Re: Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

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Post by aryehof » Sun, Jan 15, 2017, 6:13 AM UTC

Has AI advanced from the 1990s? Or has there been a change in the environment it can be applied to, with the rise of big data, big infrastructure - big everything?

Re: Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

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Post by thedevil » Sun, Jan 15, 2017, 6:48 AM UTC

aryehof wrote: post #6

Has AI advanced from the 1990s? Or has there been a change in the environment it can be applied to, with the rise of big data, big infrastructure - big everything?

They learned how to train deep nets ten years ago (and are getting better fast as new techniques are invented). As a result, neural nets started taking over.

Big Everything is important, but without the new techniques for deep nets, AI would not be so sexy right now.

Re: Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

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Post by tossaway322 » Sun, Jan 15, 2017, 8:01 AM UTC

aryehof wrote: post #6

Has AI advanced from the 1990s? Or has there been a change in the environment it can be applied to, with the rise of big data, big infrastructure - big everything?

aryehof asks>"Has AI advanced from the 1990s?"

No.

But lots of progress in pattern recognition & classification. So whatever AI exists can see better, hear better, speak better.

Unfortunately nothing remotely approaching the intelligence of a cat or dog, much less a human being, has appeared except in very limited domains.

Re: Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

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Post by raverbashing » Sun, Jan 15, 2017, 8:16 AM UTC

"Leading"

Self-delusions of grandeur of Quebeckers are funny.

Too bad they can't attract talent and can't use the ones they attracted there

Meanwhile some top experts are in Silicon Valley, some others in London, there's a lot of ML investment in Berlin and other cities

Montreal is a great city but gets dragged down by the French Quebec BS

Re: Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover

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Post by ryanobjc » Sun, Jan 15, 2017, 8:24 AM UTC

Air Canada isn't a global company. It's a flag carrier for Canada only.

The rest is wishful thinking. Building an industry isn't just top down (all the braggy stuff was about top down), the bottom up stuff is critical and important.

Good luck with it. But I feel like while the research might be OK, the commercialization will come out of the bay area anyways. There just isn't enough quality people to do this in Canada.