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Re:New institute aims to make Toronto an ‘intellectual centr... by Apocryphon on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:33PM (#13991928)
I thought that Montréal was already the AI centre of Canada.
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Re:New institute aims to make Toronto an ‘intellectual centr... by beerbaron23 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:27PM (#13992390)
Correct, Montréal is already way way ahead of Toronto on the AI front. Google and Microsoft already invested heavily into Montréal. M$ donated 7 million to UdeM and McGill as well.
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Re:New institute aims to make Toronto an ‘intellectual centr... by perhonen on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:33PM (#13992187)
UMontreal has Bengio, UofT has Hinton. Toronto also has Google Brain, and many UofT phd students and postdocs have ended up there (Sutskever, Karpathy).
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