Waterloo-based Maluuba partners with other AI pioneers to develop machine learning

Teaching machines to read isn't the same as teaching a toddler. They don't have the nuances of culture, idioms, tone and other social cues to understand what you're writing about. Waterloo's Maluuba is leading the way in teaching machines to think, reason and communicate just like we do thanks to a growing research and learning lab in Montreal that is working on those types of common sense problems that could lead to the next breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The company, founded in 2010 by University of Waterloo students at the school's Velocity program, took another step towards that last week by releasing two sophisticated natural language understanding data sets. Instead of guarding their data sets like a secret, they decided to share them to advance innovation in artificial intelligence research and facilitate future breakthroughs.