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How Montreal aims to become a world centre of artificial intelligence

Published: 23 May 2017

U de M and McGill University are the academic bedrocks on which Montreal’s AI sector has been built. About 150 AI researchers toil at the two institutions, making the city one of the world’s largest basic deep learning centres. “We stuck to academia, which helped us build big labs with a lot of graduate students,” said Doina Precup, associate professor in computer sciences at McGill and recipient of a Google research award. “The training and the research started much before (AI) was popular, since the early 2000s, when people didn’t really care for this type of research.”

Read more: The Montreal Gazette

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