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Microsoft Research Montreal Moves to Montreal AI hub
Montreal, Canada – September 18, 2018 – Microsoft Research Montreal announced today that it is relocating its office to Mile-Ex, Montreal’s new AI Hub. Since the start of 2017, the Microsoft Research Montreal lab has played a fundamental role in…
Dans l’actualité | The Register
Microsoft’s TextWorld gives AI a Zork-like challenge
While the rest of the Microsoft world squeaked with excitement about new hardware and free collaboration tools, the boffins at Redmond’s Montréal Research Lab have looked to history as way to help Reinforcement Learning (RL) researchers skill up their AI…
Dans l’actualité | LA PRESSE
Intelligence artificielle: Microsoft renforce sa présence à Montréal
C’est l’un des plus grands risques liés au développement de l’intelligence artificielle : répéter les erreurs du passé. Et Microsoft installera à Montréal une équipe de chercheurs qui se penchera sur ce sujet, a appris La Presse.
Dans l’actualité | BNN Bloomberg
Microsoft hires former Spotify researcher to head Montreal AI group
Microsoft Corp. is bolstering its Canadian artificial intelligence presence in Montreal, adding a former Spotify researcher to lead the tech giant’s ethical AI group.
Dans l’actualité | The Globe and Mail
More brains: Microsoft leads hunt to bring global AI experts to Canada
Canada is gearing up for its second wave of brain gains in the hot field of artificial intelligence. The country’s global leadership in AI began when deep learning pioneer Geoff Hinton decamped from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the…
Hybrid Reward Architecture and the Fall of Ms. Pac-Man with Dr. Harm van Seijen
If you’ve ever watched King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, you know what a big deal it is to beat a video arcade game that was designed not to lose. Most humans can’t even come close. Enter Harm van Seijen,…
Hybrid Reward Architecture (HRA) Achieving super-human performance on Ms. Pac-Man
Games are popular as a test-bed for new machine learning techniques because they can be very challenging and allow for easy analysis of new learning techniques in a controlled environment. For reinforcement learning, where the goal is to learn good…
Dans l’actualité | The Globe and Mail
Microsoft buys into Canada’s AI research with purchase of Maluuba
Microsoft Corp. is buying into Canada’s artificial intelligence research community with a deal to purchase Maluuba, a deep-learning and AI-technology startup based in Waterloo, Ont., and Montreal.