Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

One of Alberta Innovates’ main strategies is to advance the development and use of artificial intelligence as an enabling tool to create prosperity and make Albertans’ lives better. 

We planted the seeds for Alberta to become a top centre for artificial intelligence (AI) with our early investments in Al research at the University of Alberta in 2002, at the dawn of the new millennium. 

This eventually led to the creation of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), a stand-alone institute. 

We have continued to invest in Amii. Today, the institute is renowned for its research, developing talent, and helping industry adopt AI in business. It has been named one of three institutes that form the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy. 

Amii has a mandate to build technical/scientific capacity in machine learning, and to translate this into commercial use across Alberta’s economic sectors.  

Its principal investigators are world leaders in several sub-fields of machine learning and AI. They work closely with global scientific and business communities to push the bounds of knowledge. A team of machine learning advisors guide local companies in building their in-house AI capabilities.