Machine Learning

• Tourism Jasper harnessing power of AI: ‘The sky is the limit’ 

  Tourism Jasper is exploring how AI could be used on everything from travel patterns and seasonal hiring to human-wildlife conflict and adaptation to climate change. 

  Canada

  Aug 11
  
• Calgary company using AI to boost its trading card game sorters

  “We are branching into machine learning now, which is going to help a lot with speed as well as being able to recognize new games faster.”

  Canada

  Aug 2
  
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• Alberta-made technology screens people’s speech for early signs of Alzheimer’s

  Alberta technology is using audio cues to help detect Alzheimer's disease. It listens for three features: pauses in speech, word length or complexity, and speech intelligibility.

  Canada

  Jun 9
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• Introducing GPT-4: The next generation AI that can ‘see’

  GPT-4, the latest development of OpenAI, is a "large multimodal model," meaning it can analyze not only text, but images as well.

  Tech

  Mar 15
• Where AI can help fight climate change – and where it can’t

  Information on everything from the impacts of past extreme weather events to current soil conditions can be run through a machine that improves its analysis over time.

  Environment

  Nov 11, 2022
• ‘We are not prepared’: Russia uses artificial intelligence, deep fakes in propaganda warfare

  As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, another war is waging online that risks deluding an unprepared audience.

  Politics

  Mar 30, 2022
• Lawson study aims to strengthen algorithm to better track homelessness

  The project aims to clear up some of the fog left by data on homelessness that primarily relies on information collected through Canada's health-care system.

  Canada

  May 19, 2021
• U of A researchers using type of A.I. to predict different COVID-19 scenarios

  Machine learning can allow researchers to see how transmission rates change after policy changes, said Hao Wang, a math professor at the University of Alberta.

  Health

  Apr 14, 2021
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• The 5-minute shopping spree. How robots are turbo-charging your online orders

  The 'fourth' industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is all about automation, machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence. Is Canada keeping pace with the leap forward?

  Tech

  Jan 30, 2021
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• Researchers aim to use artificial intelligence to save endangered B.C. killer whales

  Researchers are aiming to "teach" a computer to recognize the sounds of endangered B.C. orcas in order to develop a warning system for preventing ships from fatally striking them.

  Environment

  Dec 13, 2020