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Alberta Machine
Intelligence Institute
“It’s not really so much making an alternative to humanity; it’s understanding humanity. It’s the desire to understand the world, the desire to make tools to make ourselves better.
It’s really totally human — the natural continuation of what humans are.”
Richard S. SuttonAmii Fellow & Professor of Computing Science at UAlberta
Amii is a global leader in machine intelligence.
Our vision is a better world for all that has been transformed through machine intelligence
Our mission is to enable world-changing machine intelligence
We’re guided by four main principles.
Sustainability1
3
2 Scalability
Agility
Non-zero-sumity4
We focus our efforts in four
main areas
Supporting world-class research and training
Growing machine intelligence capacity
in business
Connecting global innovators
Boosting machine intelligence literacy in
business
We’re part of the Pan-CanadianAI Strategy
Positions Canada as a world-leading destination for companies seeking to invest in AI an innovation
Led by CIFAR, the world’s first national AI strategy
Recognizes Canada’s centres of AI excellence: Mila (Montreal), The Vector Institute (Toronto) and Amii (Edmonton)
Establishes the AI & Society program and the National AI program
First cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs includes 29 researchers at institutions across Canada
$125 Million across Canada to attract and retain academic talent
Amii has diverse expertise in machine intelligence.
Algorithmic Game TheoryAlgorithms & TheoryBio-/Medical InformaticsData Mining & AnalysisDeep LearningDeep Reinforcement LearningHuman-Machine InteractionInformation Extraction & VisualizationMedical ImagingNatural Language ProcessingPrecision MedicinePrivacyReinforcement LearningRoboticsSocial Network Analysis
Amii researchers lead the world in the research and development of machine intelligence.
Richard S.Sutton
AlonaFyshe
MichaelBowling
Randy Goebel
Russ Greiner
JamesWright
MarthaWhite
DaleSchuurmans
Patrick M. Pilarski
YutakaYasui
AngelChang
CsabaSzepesvári
OrSheffet
OsmarZaïane
RobertHolte
We’re a key partner in many notable machine
intelligence achievements
Pioneer of reinforcement learning – Richard Sutton
First group to beat poker pros at Heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em – Michael Bowling
Solved the game of Checkers – Jonathan Schaeffer
Academic origins of AlphaGo and the Atari Game Project
Developed UCT algorithm at the heart of many advancements in games – Csaba Szepesvári
Thailand National Innovation Award for Tuberculosis Diagnosis – Yutaka Yasui
System capable of passing Japanese Bar exam – Randy Goebel
Open-source community centred around adaptive prosthetic limbs – Patrick Pilarski
Companiesaround the worldare recruitingour talent.
We support world-class research and training at UAlberta
Funding Research
Amii provides funding that supports world-leading research at the University of Alberta.
Academic Training & Support
Amii helps bring new researchers into academia to drive new levels of talent development.
We grow AI capacity in Alberta-based businesses
Innovation Affiliates Program (IAP)
Amii’s IAP guides businesses on the path to AI adoption by helping them develop strategies, shift processes and systems and build in-house knowledge and teams.
AI Internships
Amii’s internship program helps businesses gain direct access to talent.
We help connect a global community of innovators
Amii Connects
Amii Connects helps make meaningful and productive connections between like-minded people and organizations globally and within Alberta’s innovation system.
We boost machine intelligence literacy in business
Courses, Seminars & Meetups
Amii provides a range of meetups, events and educational opportunities to help drive AI literacy for Alberta workers and businesses.
