As AI touches millions of new lives each day, Canada’s Artificial Intelligence ecosystem had proved immensely valuable and resourceful in addressing the pandemic. Right from fueling the genomic research, or actively tracking and predicting the outbreaks through AI analytics, Canada spearheaded the mining of existing and developing drugs for Corona.
Having said that, the Canadian Government is very technocratic in its approach. Proof of this is the 2017 Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy discussed further in this blog.
The strategy infused $125 million into the country’s top AI research institutions which leveraged enormous support for research in machine learning making it the world’s first national AI strategy. This strategy projects Canada as a leading player in AI globally.
Canada’s AI-adopted private sector succeeded to attract around $3 billion in new investment creating a mammoth 50,000 jobs in around 670 AI-focused firms. All this, with the help of the AI ecosystem in the last decade.
Canada impels its way to become a powerhouse of AI innovation. It is the producer of the maximum AI patents per million population among G7 nations and China. In this blog series, we will showcase how AI impacts various industries in PAN Canada and its economy in general.
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The image below indicates that Toronto has attracted a highly concentrated cluster of AI startups.
