The next tech boom: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

Artificial Intelligence is booming in Montréal, and Canada more broadly. Computer algorithms can analyse vast quantities of data and establish patterns, with a myriad of potential applications. From voice recognition, translation services and directing autonomous vehicles to informing policing through crime analysis and diagnostics in healthcare, the potential is enormous. Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Facebook have already made huge investments in Montreal's AI cluster, which is bidding for super-cluster status from the Canadian Federal government. They are drawn by the pool of talent, anchored by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, at Université de Montréal whose director is one of the foremost thinkers in machine learning, Professor Yoshua Bengio.