The University of Toronto (U of T), the Digital Finance Institute (DFI), and the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, student teams at the U of T Scarborough are designing a chatbot for a one-stop information gateway to boost innovation and investment in Canadian financial services.
Leveraging IBM Watson—IBM’s artificial intelligence and machine learning technology—75 UTSC students studying computer science with Professor Abbas Attarwala collaborated with faculty across two campus-linked accelerators, The BRIDGE and the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab, to build Canada’s first chatbot equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge of FinTech, AI, and the systems that support investment in Canadian industry.