Across 13 clues 1. Name of the planned national platform linking Canadian hospitals' health data (5) 3. Toronto company that is Canada's only builder of large AI models from scratch (6) 5. Surname of Evan, Canada's first federal minister of artificial intelligence (7) 6. Computing award that three neural-network pioneers shared for 2018 (6) 7. Nickname for people who warn that AI could end in disaster (7) 10. Surname of Aidan, co-founder and CEO of Canada's leading AI model company (5) 11. Word for businesses putting AI to use, the new strategy's main goal (8) 13. German AI company that agreed to merge with a Toronto rival in 2026 (5,5) 15. Type of AI design, introduced in 2017, that powers chatbots like ChatGPT (11) 18. Image-recognition program from U of T that kicked off the AI boom in 2012 (7) 19. Surname of the Montreal professor who is the world's most-cited computer scientist (6) 21. Surname of the OpenAI co-founder who earned his PhD at U of T (9) 22. Surname of the prime minister who announced the AI plan at a Toronto hospital (6)
Down 11 clues 1. Toronto AI research institute funded by the 2017 national strategy (6) 2. Quebec AI research institute, one of three funded by Ottawa in 2017 (4) 4. Surname of the U of T researcher who quit Google in 2023 over AI risks (6) 7. Type of AI where layered networks find patterns in data (4,8) 8. Nickname for the three researchers in Canada who laid modern AI's foundations (10) 9. Word for a country controlling its own AI computers, data and models (11) 12. Legal rights to inventions; fewer than half of Canada's AI ones stayed here (7) 14. Short name for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, which ran the 2017 AI plan (5) 16. Surname of the Edmonton researcher who pioneered reinforcement learning (6) 17. Prize in physics that a U of T AI pioneer won in 2024 (5) 20. Surname of Yann, the French AI pioneer who shared a top computing award for 2018 (5)
