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This unexpected city has become one of the world’s most important AI hubs

From Egypt Independent · () English

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  • Toronto is presented as a major global AI hub despite not being an obvious destination for that distinction.
  • Geoffrey Hinton’s decision in the 1980s to pursue machine-learning research at the University of Toronto helped pave the way for modern AI systems.

Toronto has become one of the world’s most important artificial intelligence hubs, in part because of a decision made by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in the 1980s.

Hinton left a well-funded position at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a then little-studied area of machine-learning research at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, Hinton and that research had helped pave the way for how modern AI systems function.

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