An Insider's Look Into The Summer School Training The World's Top AI Researchers

The CIFAR deep learning summer school in Toronto has been training the top AI researchers entering or finishing Ph.D. programs since 2005. Over 1,200 students from 60 different countries applied, of which 200 were selected to attend. Attendees represent some of the leading AI labs in the world, Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (MILA), University College London, University of Toronto, University of Alberta, Berkeley, NYU, Columbia, CMU, MIT, ETH Zurich, and Stanford. Every year, the school has trained the next generation of top AI researchers which now hold top posts at AI companies like Google, Facebook, Tesla, and Uber. During an intense 10-day period, students learn the tricks of the trade from top AI researchers like deep learning pioneers Yoshua Bengio (MILA), Geoff Hinton (UofT), and reinforcement learning pioneer, Richard Sutton (University of Alberta, Google Deepmind).