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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

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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.

Let’s connect.

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