Why Google's newest AI team is setting up in Canada

Things are friendlier in the north. DeepMind, Google's London-based artificial intelligence research branch, is launching a team at the University of Alberta in Canada. Why there? Two reasons come to mind: 1. Canada has a history of AI research DeepMind is launching a team at the university partly for proximity to the broader AI research community in Canada. A number of leading AI researchers in Silicon Valley hail from Canada, where they plugged away at deep learning, a complex automated proces...