AI Commons

AI Commons is a collective project whose goal is to make the benefits of AI available to all. Since AI research can benefit from the input of a large range of talents across the world, the project seeks to develop ways for developers and organizations to collaborate more easily and effectively. As a community operating in an environment of trust and problem-solving, AI Commons can empower researchers to tackle the world's important problems using all the possibilities of cutting-edge AI.

Speaker bio: Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, scientific director of Mila, CIFAR Program co-director of the CIFAR Learning in Machines and Brains program (formerly Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception), scientific director of IVADO and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. His main research ambition is to understand principles of learning that yield intelligence. He supervises a large group of graduate students and post-docs. His research is widely cited (over 130000 citations found by Google Scholar in August 2018, with an H-index over 120, and rising fast).