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Cutting-edge technology detects nanoplastics in water – instantly

webfull — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:50:18 +0000

A McGill-led research team has developed the first real-time, on-site technology capable of detecting and deciphering nanoplastics from all other particles in water, a capacity akin to being able to find a needle in a haystack within milliseconds.

Microplastic pieces are between 1 micrometre and 5 millimetres, roughly equivalent to a grain of rice. Nanoplastics are far tinier - a single nanometre is just 0.000001 millimetres. For comparison, a human hair is approximately 80,000–100,000 nanometers wide.

Published: 4 July 2024

Experts: The impact of AI on education

webfull — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:18:09 +0000

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are changing the way students learn, from grade school to grad school. On April 25, the Higher Council of Education, jointly with the Commission on Ethics in Science and Technology, submitted a report calling for the supervision and regulation of AI in higher education in Quebec.

Published: 8 May 2024

Machine Like Us Podcast Series | The Globe and Mail

webfull — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:53:04 +0000

May 7, 2024 | We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction are now transpiring into our reality. Machine Like Us is a technology show where every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future.

Published: 7 May 2024

$4.5 million for three FRQS Dual Chairs in Artificial Intelligence and Health co-led by McGill researchers

webfull — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:15:44 +0000

The FRQS Dual AI Chairs Program supports research collaborations across disciplines in pursuit of the significant potential of AI to address some of humanity’s greatest health challenges.

Published: 21 September 2023

$3.75 M for new Global Climate Center on AI and Biodiversity Change

webfull — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:40:09 +0000

NSERC Alliance Grant supports McGill-led Canadian team, new global climate center on AI for biodiversity change

Published: 18 September 2023

The future of AI governance a balancing act of privacy, ethics, and progress | The Hill Times

webfull — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:29:07 +0000

March 16, 2023 | Master of Public Policy Candidate Aftab Ahmed, wrote about the innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne recently launching the second phase of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. Ottawa’s attempts to frame the ‘rules of the game’ for its digital economy is commendable, and the U.S. should be observing and emulating this approach. He said "Let me be clear: technology is not the enemy. Novel innovations can undeniably act as positive economic disruptors."

Published: 17 March 2023

What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

webfull — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:17:18 +0000

AI can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see. Researchers from �㽶��Ƶ got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from CBC articles as prompts. They then compared the simulated news coverage to the actual reporting at the time and found that CBC coverage was less focused on the medical emergency and more positively focused on personalities and geo-politics.

Published: 6 December 2022

AI that can learn patterns of human language

webfull — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:27:33 +0000

Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But researchers from �㽶��Ƶ, MIT, and Cornell University have taken a step in this direction. They have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own.

Published: 12 October 2022

Is AI good or bad for the climate? It’s complicated

webfull — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:31:19 +0000

As the world fights climate change, will the increasingly widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) be a help or a hindrance? In a paper published this week in Nature Climate Change, a team of experts in AI, climate change, and public policy present a framework for understanding the complex and multifaceted relationship of AI with greenhouse gas emissions, and suggest ways to better align AI with climate change goals.

Published: 28 June 2022

Brain connectivity can build better AI

webfull — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:06:37 +0000

Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks

A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks efficiently.

Published: 9 August 2021