The great minds behind intelligent machines

The world is poised for a new revolution. Research in artificial intelligence is already changing how we assess risk and make decisions in everything from medicine to the financial markets. As machines get smarter, we will increasingly turn the difficult work of analysis over to computers that can make better predictions than humans. Canadian labs are home to trailblazers in this field. At the Université de Montréal, Yoshua Bengio is breaking new ground in understanding the principles of machine learning techniques, which will give to computers the ability to predict behaviours by analyzing large amounts of data. At the University of Toronto, Geoffrey Hinton investigates ways of using artificial neural networks, which mimic the behaviour of the human brain. These are just two of the country’s powerhouse minds in AI. Across the country researchers are breaking barriers in this exciting field with the help of CFI funding. In this collection, read about three of them.