�㽶��Ƶ News - artificial intelligence (AI)

PQ plan to replace immigrants with robots won’t address key labour market shortages

webfull — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:18:34 +0000

The Parti Québécois' recent 97-page immigration plan suggests replacing workers with automation in sectors facing labour shortages. However, Assistant Professor of Operations Management Rob Glew argues this approach is flawed. He points out that sectors of Quebec’s economy with the most acute labour shortages don’t lend themselves well to automation, like health care and early childhood education. “To just lump it in that robots are substitutes for immigrants totally misses the point,” Glew tells CTV News.

Published: 15 November 2024

Researchers find design flaws and oversight issues in certain health apps, offer solutions for more effective tools

webfull — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:56:13 +0000

AI-powered apps offering medical diagnoses at the click of a button are often limited by biased data and a lack of regulation, leading to inaccurate and unsafe health advice, a new study found.

Published: 6 November 2024

Meet the winning teams of our Retail Gen AI Hackathon

webfull — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:45:29 +0000

Congratulations to our winning teams of the Bensadoun School’s 2^nd annual Retail Gen AI Hackathon.

We had 38 student teams register representing diverse faculties across �㽶��Ƶ. Over two days, 10 finalist teams hacked creative Gen AI solutions for our title sponsor ALDO Group.

Each team had an AWS mentor and access to support from IVADO Labs and DataSphere Lab team members.

Published: 10 October 2024

AI Is Good for Us: A Microsoft-sponsored white paper

webfull — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:09:19 +0000

AI has become an omnipresent topic of discussion in our daily lives, both professionally and personally. While much has been written on the challenges, risks, and pitfalls of AI (and the strong need to regulate its development and deployment carefully), it's also important to highlight its numerous benefits and positive impacts on society and the economy.

Published: 11 September 2024

AI meets citizen science to unlock the nature of storytelling

webfull — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:03:14 +0000

A new project led by �㽶��Ƶ researchers seeks to understand one of humanity’s oldest practices and most powerful tools—storytelling. From ancient oral traditions to modern-day literature and digital narratives, storytelling is an essential part of the lived experience that is not yet fully understood. ‘The Lives of Literary Characters’ is a first-of-its-kind initiative, harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and the collective wisdom of readers worldwide to explore the question: why do we tell stories?

Published: 23 January 2024

Public sector organizations need to ensure fair AI implementation

webfull — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:05:43 +0000

Artificial intelligence can identify patterns in data much faster and more effectively and efficiently than humans can, but it is only applicable to the specific contexts in which data was created. Even then, AI can replicate the data’s biases and encode them, resulting in a major limitation that can lead to discrimination on the basis of sex or ethnicity. This is of particular concern for public sector organizations, which need to be fair to those they serve.

Published: 10 November 2023

Desautels-developed AI app is helping monkeys avoid injury in Costa Rica

webfull — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:17:57 +0000

When endangered howler monkey populations cross Costa Rica’s roads, they are vulnerable to injury from electrical wires and passing cars. Associate Professor Juan Camilo Serpa, partnering with Reserva Conchal, is using artificial intelligence to help prevent these injuries from occurring.

Published: 20 October 2023

Maxime Cohen named Chief AI Officer at Intégral digital accelerator

webfull — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:52:06 +0000

McGill Desautels Faculty of Management Professor Maxime Cohen was named Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer for Intégral, a digital accelerator that works with businesses to support their digital transformation and growth. The accelerator has offices in Canada and France, and supports their growth through multiple agencies that specialize in content, web infrastructure, analytics and digital marketing.

Published: 14 June 2023

A Cree-speaking Alexa bot?

webfull — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 20:14:18 +0000

Indigenous communities across the globe are fighting to retain their languages, which serve as means through which cultures, knowledge and traditions are preserved and transmitted between generations.

Published: 27 January 2023

Bots with feelings: Study explores how human customers react to AI chatbots with emotions

webfull — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:12:17 +0000

Artificial intelligence chatbots that show positive feelings — such as adding an “I am excited to do so!” or a few exclamation marks — do not necessarily translate into positive reactions or contribute to higher customer satisfaction, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of South Florida, the Georgia Institute of Technology and �㽶��Ƶ.

Published: 15 December 2022