Canada: The Next AI Superpower?

The idea of turning Canada into an AI Superpower came to life on a dock, in a lake, in Northern Ontario where a handful of entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and investors got together to discuss the long game for this country. Moving from a resource economy to one based on intellectual property. The recent announcement of Toronto's new Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence is one of the most exciting and promising initiatives for the tech community in Canada. It's been paired with the recent federal budget that has dedicated significant funding to advancing innovation and research in this arena. We are home to world-class AI centres where the modern godfathers of deep learning – Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Sutton and Yoshua Benigo – are educating the next generation of scientists and engineers.