The country was either prescient or lucky in continuing to fund neural networks research when the US retreated from it in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, Canadian researchers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio pushed forward the methods we now call "deep learning." These three researchers won the 2018 Turing Award --often called the Nobel equivalent for computer science. Canada is also known in AI for its collegial, public/private ecosystems. They incorporate government funding, venture capital, university research initiatives, and private sector sponsorship.

Canada has received more than its usual share of attention for its AI capabilities. The country was either prescient or lucky in continuing to fund neural networks research when the US retreated from it in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, Canadian researchers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun (who is French-American, but worked with Hinton's group in Toronto), and Yoshua Bengio pushed forward the methods we now call "deep learning." These three researchers won the 2018 Turing Award--often called the Nobel equivalent for computer science. Canada is also known in AI for its collegial, public/private ecosystems.

Canada has received more than its usual share of attention for its AI capabilities. The country was either prescient or lucky in continuing to fund neural networks research when the US retreated from it in the 1970s and 80s. As a result, Canadian researchers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio pushed forward the methods we now call "deep learning." These three researchers won the 2018 Turing Award--often called the Nobel equivalent for computer science. Canada is also known in AI for its collegial, public/private ecosystems.