By Meaghan Thurston
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program provides long-term, dedicated research funding to support and train the next generation of AI leaders.
Consider a question: 鈥淗ow many students took each calculus class?鈥� A seemingly simple inquiry that soon turns complicated if you are trying to teach an artificial neural network to produce a database query based on the question 鈥� something that could be usefully applied in an academic setting.
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