AI can help Canada move from the second least productive country in the G7 to a world leader and reverse a decade of stagnant growth, ensuring higher living standards and competitiveness.ampersandGRAY
How Amii helps business leaders overcome hesitation to build internal capabilities and proprietary AI solutions to improve productivity
Canada is currently the second least productive country in the G7, according to a report released in December by the Government of Canada. The encouraging news is that artificial intelligence can help Canada move from this position to a world leader and reverse a decade of stagnant growth, ensuring higher standards of living and competitiveness.
To do this, Canadian companies must move from using ChatGPT and basic AI exploration to deep proprietary AI integration. Yet current adoption rates confirm that companies are still hesitant to commit, in part because of the seemingly daunting task of identifying the right use case.
For Marlene McNaughton, director of revenue at Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute), indecision comes with a high opportunity cost.
“The real risk is not getting started,” she says. “Working with hundreds of companies, we often see leaders stagnating, waiting for absolute clarity or the perfect moment, not realizing that AI is fundamentally iterative. It’s not a one-time thing. You start and you keep going,” she adds. “And Amii can be with you through this adoption curve.”
As one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, Amii is uniquely positioned to connect world-class research to commercial deployment. Canadian companies can work with Amii to help create the proprietary AI models that have been identified as most urgent, while building their internal capabilities.
“We are fundamentally de-risking the process for businesses and also building critical use cases that will help other Canadian businesses find the path forward and legitimate reasons to invest in AI,” says McNaughton.
Companies that take a low-key approach to AI development more often run the risk of “failure to launch.” By partnering with Amii, businesses have a proven, collaborative path to bring new offerings to market and increase value.
“We don’t remove your data and put it into a model you don’t know anything about,” says McNaughton. “You work alongside the world’s leading experts in AI and machine learning. »
Amii helps businesses identify their best AI strategy and roadmap, then help them develop their proprietary model with a dedicated team of AI experts – all in a seamless, turnkey approach for customers.
The results of this collaborative, risk-free approach are incredible, says McNaughton, highlighting the success of Visionstate, a partner that engaged Amii to explore AI enhancements to its core product. By building internal capabilities alongside Amii researchers, Visionstate has done more than strengthen its core product; they discovered two entirely new business offerings.
By providing a strategic roadmap, world-class talent and a proprietary model as a practical outcome, Amii has effectively lowered the barrier to entry for Canadian companies ready to lead in the AI space.
For Ms. McNaughton, it appears the only remaining obstacle is the decision to start.
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