OTTAWA — The roots of Canada’s flourishing modern AI ecosystem trace back four decades, to a then-new research organization’s attempt to ford the gap between the social and natural sciences. Stephen Toope, the high-profile new CEO of CIFAR, hopes to keep it “out on the forefront,” looking for interdisciplinary answers to society’s big questions.
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