Over the last few days, the RE•WORK team have been here in Montreal, the Canadian AI capital, where we’ve heard from experts from some of the leading research hubs and companies from across the globe. We’ve been joined by AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton who shared their most recent research advancements and also appeared on an exclusive panel discussion, talking about the landscape of AI.
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Historically, technology and scientific research has been a vastly male dominated sector. In recent years, the rise of female CEOs in companies such as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer and CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, has improved the gender balance, but encouraging young women into careers in artificial intelligence and computer science is still a struggle.
Tonight, at the Women in Machine Intelligence Dinner in Montreal, we will hear from inspirational women working in AI and learn about not only their research progressions, but their place as women in the industry.
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On 11th October RE•WORK will be hosting the first Woman in Machine Intelligence Dinner in Montreal. Join us and hear from leading female experts in machine intelligence and discuss the impact of this rapidly advancing technology.
With only a few seats left register here fast to secure your place. The dinner is open to anyone keen to support advancing women in the industry!
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The world of deep learning is dominated by academics and technology giants pumping thousands of dollars into their research and applications every day. But what about the smaller companies? There are so many real-world problems that can be solved by DL that huge corporations aren’t solving. There are countless startups trying to solve an array of issues and improve efficiency in countless industries, and many of these fail - not due necessarily to a poor idea or execution, but they are often under funded and understaffed. The startups with the really extraordinary ideas however, often secure funding from Venture Capitalists, in crowdfunding campaigns, or through awards or grants. The CEOs of these companies are not necessarily AI experts, but are experts in their own industry from artists, to healthcare professionals, scientists, retail managers and many more.
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Artist or not, when you pick up a pen and try to draw something that you’ve got a vivid representation of in your mind, but it’s just doesn’t look quite right it can be frustrating. Product design and development firm, Cambridge Consultants, is leveraging machine learning to complete and enhance a drawing that’s been started with a human sketch. ‘Vincent’ the breakthrough ML combines a ‘user's’ sketch with the digested sum of art since the renaissance, as if Van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso were inside the machine, producing art to order.’
Last week at the Deep Learning Summit in London, we were lucky enough to experience first hand the work that Cambridge Consultants are doing with Vincent, their ‘deep learning demonstration which builds on human input to create completed works of art.’
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Having been dubbed as ‘the Silicon Valley of AI’, Montreal is steaming ahead with startups, and tech giants with leading AI research coming out of the Canadian city. With pioneers such as Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Geoffrey Hinton hailing from Canada, it was only a matter of time before Canada took the lead in the AI race.
At the centre of this hub is the Vector Institute, who ‘will drive excellence and leadership in Canada’s knowledge, creation, and use of artificial intelligence to foster economic growth and improve the lives of Canadians’.
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DeepMind are currently leveraging unsupervised learning and are teaching AI to learn and understand the goings on of the real world. Previously, machines have been programmed to learn from a sequence of instructions, looking inwards to understand how to interpret environments, categorise images, or grasp movements. This time, however, DeepMind have trained the model to look into the real world and learn as a human child does.
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Last week we took a look at how AI can help alleviate the stress of travelling with companies such as Skyscanner, Airbnb and Trivago there to help. Planning your travel and accommodation is step one, but there’s so much more prep that always gets left to the last minute. When was the last time you got your suitcase out to pack and realised not only did you have no holiday appropriate clothes, but you also didn’t have your music library sorted for that long journey and those lazy mornings by the pool, and what about entertaining the kids? Should have started thinking about movies for them last week.
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Who doesn’t love a summer holiday? Whether it’s a staycation, or you’re packing up the whole family to jet off for some summer sun, it’s something we look forward to all year. Until you remember that it’s actually a bit of a logistical nightmare.
Where are you going? Have you booked? How are you going to get there? Got some music to listen to on the way? Summer wardrobe ready? Got the camera ready to go?
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There are an increasing number of female entrepreneurs in technology with CEO’s and COO’s like Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, and Susan Wojcicki of Youtube leading the way, but it isn’t enough to break the stereotype of a male dominance in the industry. In the UK fewer than 10% of computing engineers are women, and there are over 13,000 more male than female students in computer science.
But why does it matter?
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