Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City

Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City by rckrd on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:23AM (#14306088)

The University of Toronto is home to Geoffrey Hinton and his research lab. Hinton was the first to use backpropagation for machine learning and a lot of the techniques used today were pioneered by his lab. He is also manages the Google Brain team in Toronto.

Yann LeCun, the director of AI at Facebook, also did a postdoc at Toronto.

[0] http://learning.cs.toronto.edu:40292/people#Faculty

[1] http://yann.lecun.com/

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Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City by scosman on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:48AM (#14309112)

Also, Hinton (and others) are launching a giant AI labs. Lots of government and partner funding (Google, Nvidia, etc).

http://vectorinstitute.ai/

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Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City by miraj on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:26AM (#14308419)

and some more. here is a neat little article re: Hinton's network effect!

"Six degrees of separation: how U of T's Geoffrey Hinton is connected to top AI researchers around the world" https://www.utoronto.ca/news/six-degrees-separation-how-u-t-...

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Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City by halflings on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:21AM (#14307360)

+ Yoshua Bengio in Montreal.

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