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ber Opening Toronto Research Hub For Driverless Car Technology
"Toronto and Canada for the past two decades has been at the forefront of AI, and that's the expertise were bringing to Uber,"says Raquel Urtasun, who will lead Uber's Advanced Technologies Group in Toronto.
Credit: Erica Edwards / Uber Canada
Uber is launching a research group devoted to driverless car technology in Toronto, creating a third hub — its first outside the U.S. — for the company's ambitions in a frenzied field that Uber and its competitors believe will upend transportation, generating billions of dollars in the process.
The Advanced Technologies Group will be led by Raquel Urtasun, a University of Toronto computer science professor who holds a Canada Research Chair in machine learning and computer vision. Urtasun uses artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, to make vehicles and other machines perceive the world around them more accurately and efficiently.
The group will hire "dozens" of researchers and engineers in the next few years, the company says.
From The Toronto Star
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