Samsung stepped up AI research and brought in a Montreal professor as director of the AI lab

Samsung electronics will conduct more in-depth research activities in key technologies of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be applied to next-generation semiconductor systems, Business Korea reported.

On May 2, samsung electronics announced the relocation of its Montreal AI laboratory at the samsung institute of advanced technology to the mira institute building in Montreal, Canada.The move is aimed at strengthening research into basic technologies in the field of artificial intelligence in the future.

The Mila institute is a world-class deep learning research laboratory. Researchers from the university of Montreal, McGill university, and global corporation worked together under the guidance of one of the world's top three scholars, professor Yeshua Benjio.Get into the field of study.Samsung electronics became the first south Korean company to move into the mira institute building.

Samsung brought in Simon lacost-julien, a professor at the university of Montreal and a member of the mira institute, and appointed him director of the Montreal AI laboratory.

Samsung plans to focus on innovative technologies such as new deep learning algorithms and devices based on unsupervised learning and the generation of countermeasures networks (GANs).In addition, the company will use the Montreal AI lab as a training center for leading AI researchers.

"" samsung advanced technology institute will focus on artificial intelligence research and application in semiconductor systems," "said huang chengyu, deputy director of samsung advanced technology research institute.Through the Montreal AI lab, we will strengthen research on fundamental innovations in artificial intelligence theory and next-generation deep learning algorithms that will shape our future over the next decade.