Even though I didn't do any work all day, the beauty of the campus at night almost makes up for it.

Happy Diwali to all celebrating! Hope everyone’s heart is warmed by the festival of lights! 🪔 #HappyDiwali

Stuck in Local Minima

What a day! 🇦🇷

With a few adjustments, ChatGPT was incredibly helpful when I used it for professional work. But I'm not sure if it's morally right to not cite it. Anyone know of the requirements for using ChatGPT for professional purposes?

Congratulations my co-supervised student Dr.(!!) Adrián González Adrián González on successfully defending his thesis "AI as an Art Director: Generating Silhouettes with a Word-Conditioned Variational Autoencoder"!

I was going to wait on this for the print copy, but before this site collapses further- Adam Summerville, Sam Snodgrass, and I wrote a textbook on Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning! If you want ML for game content, this is the place. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

I'm going to have a heart attack. This is the greatest World Cup game I've ever seen.

I am not crying you are 🇦🇷😭😭😭😭

Excited to share Med-PaLM, a large language model aligned to the medical domain to generate safe and helpful answers. Our work advances SOTA in 7 medical question-answering tasks, including achieving 67% on MedQA USMLE improving prior work by >17%. arxiv.org/abs/2212.13138

Today #UAlberta and Amii are celebrating the launch of a new $30-million initiative to recruit 20 new CIFAR AI Chairs.

Ran my first-ever winter 5k!!!

Come by CCIS in the next hour to answer questions on AI for a chance to win UofA swag.

Attending the talk by amazing Matthew Guzdial at #UpperBound2023 Amii

Just discovered boltai app; amazed by the possibilities. ollama + boltai ftw!

Cooking up something with o1 for healthcare! Excited to see where this goes!

I’m excited to try the new Whisper V3 Turbo model! 🚀 It sounds like a game changer for fast transcription. I’m curious to compare it against WhisperX’s large-v2 for accuracy and speed #AI #WhisperV3 #OpenAI

Shipped a multi-page website in 1 hour with v0 and GitHub copilot! 🤯 - Next.js + shadcn for UI - Deployed on Vercel - Responsive + SEO friendly What used to take weeks now takes minutes. Development has changed for good. Excited to see where AI takes us! ✨

@richardssutton has received the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. How did he get here, and what’s next for this Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair? Read more: hubs.la/Q039ws7h0 #AI #ReinforcementLearning #TuringAward

“It’s a marathon, it’s not a sprint.” Congratulations to Rich and Andy! Proud to be part of Amii University of Alberta.