The Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator, which includes Assistant Professor Joseph Jay Williams and U of T CS students Ilya Musabirov, Mohi Reza, Pan Chen and Harsh Kumar, is one of three finalists for the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge. The team鈥檚 software architecture uses machine learning to design inclusive and personalized online classrooms.
Some of the top innovators and developments in artificial intelligence have emerged from Canada in recent years, writes Global News, citing the contributions of U of T 海角视频 of Computer Science faculty and alumni.
The feature spotlights the work of University of Toronto luminary alongside other 鈥榞odfathers of deep learning,鈥 Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun.
Tracing the genesis of modern advancements in AI, Global News highlights the seminal roles Hinton鈥檚 former students and alumni have played in the current AI boom, including Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, who is chief science officer and co-founder of OpenAI.
鈥淚 think over the next many years when people write books about the history of neural networks, which will be the history of AI, there will be huge sections dedicated to the people in Canada and what they were doing,鈥 alumnus Nick Frosst told Global News.
Frosst is the co-founder of Toronto-based natural language processing startup Cohere, alongside fellow alumnus Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang, a former U of T computer science student.
Frosst points out heading to Silicon Valley isn鈥檛 necessarily the only option for those aspiring to a career in tech.
鈥淚 think that dream is less enticing to students as the years go on,鈥 he said. 鈥淚n part, it鈥檚 because Canada is getting better. There鈥檚 more opportunity here, there鈥檚 more companies, wages are going up 鈥 it鈥檚 a better place to be a developer,鈥 Frosst told the outlet.
