Toronto is proving to be a hotbed for machine learning

If you're interested in learning about, investing in, or building a company involved in machine learning, Toronto should be on your radar. If you've been following the industry, you likely know all about Geoff Hinton's lab based out of the University of Toronto. But even if you haven't been following the industry, you may have witnessed some of the excitement surrounding the 2012 Imagenet challenge, which represented a breakout moment for the lab -- and the industry as a whole: Hinton's lab demonstrated, for the first time in history, that computers could recognize images more accurately than humans could. This achievement was not the product of an epiphanic moment but rather a result of the incredible talent coming through the lab year after year, with students building off each other's ideas and breakthroughs. Many of these talented students are now considered world leaders in the field, and they hold important posts at the world's most cutting edge organizations.