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5 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
1922
The Toronto insulin committee gave the Crows and Hagedorn rights to produce insulin for Scandinavia, similar to Eli Lilly's North American deal.
“the insulin committee says, well, you're really the right people to do this. How about we give you rights for all of Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, you have our official blessing”
2012
A University of Toronto team won the 2012 ImageNet competition with a far lower error rate than earlier entries.
“Well, in the 2012 competition, a team from the University of Toronto submits an algorithm that wins the competition.”
2024
Gomez says Geoffrey Hinton, who taught at the University of Toronto where Gomez studied, recently won the Nobel Prize and is regarded as the godfather of deep learning.
“obviously Jeff recently won the Nobel Prize. He's kind of like, uh, attributed with being the the godfather of of deep learning in U of T, the school where I went.”
Undated
Raquel Urtasun said that for nine years she has trained her University of Toronto PhD students inside industry, first at Uber and then at Waabi.
“for the last nine years I've been educating all my PhD students before at Uber, now at Waabi”
Undated
Tanguy Catlin cited Professor Agarwal of the University of Toronto, who argues that AI makes prediction cheap and so raises the value of complements such as data and judgment.
“Professor Agarwal from the University of Toronto, in his, uh, most recent book, made a very simple, um, representation of the fact that the machine right now is really, really good at prediction”
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