It's time for Canada to invest in developing artificial intelligence

Dr. Alan Bernstein is president and chief executive of CIFAR. David McKay is president and CEO of Royal Bank of Canada. It's not often a new technology comes along with the potential to transform society. Think the steam engine, electricity or silicon chip. Today, the most transformative technology may be artificial intelligence, in particular the branches of deep learning and reinforcement learning, that are not only positioned to change the way we work and live; they're a made-in-Canada success.