One of our lab members, Cyprien Quéméneur, had the great pleasure of attending the latest edition of TechAide, a one-day research conference in collaboration with Mila, dedicated to artificial intelligence and giving back to our community. All proceeds of the conference, which amounted to over $100,000, were donated to Centraide of Greater Montreal to contribute to its fight against poverty and social exclusion. The event brought together numerous AI researchers and sparked discussions revolving around topics as diverse as music and video generation, large language models and adapters, continual reinforcement learning, AI applied to medical research, model documentation, and ethics.

Cyprien had the incredible opportunity to exchange with Samy Bengio about federated learning and get a better understanding of how it can be implemented at scale and how it factors into Apple’s commitment to privacy.

Montreal is home to a vibrant AI community, to which we at Lincs are proud to be a part of, and yesterday was a great reminder that AI should always be committed to the benefit of all. Congratulations to all the organizers for making this moment possible!