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Xevo connected car
Dec 15, 2016, 6:00 AM

UIEvolution to acquire Surround and become Xevo, with eye on transforming connected cars

The goal of further transforming how drivers interact with their cars is steering an acquisition and name change involving two Seattle-area… Read More

AI plays Dusk Drive
Dec 5, 2016, 6:01 PM

Elon Musk touts Universe, a platform that lets AI agents hone their computer skills

If you were weirded out by HBO’s “Westworld,” hold onto your cowboy hats: OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab backed by… Read More

Dec 2, 2016, 8:49 AM

Inspired by a photo of a Christmas tree, a computer wrote this eerily charming holiday song

Neural Story Singing Christmas from Hang Chu on Vimeo. Is it a warning? Is it a sign of genuine intelligence?… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 4:07 PM

Washington state lawmakers grapple with coming wave of self-driving vehicles

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A self-driving car crashes. Who is legally liable for the damage? The owner? The people in the car?… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 10:40 AM

Amazon launches new artificial intelligence services for developers: Image recognition, text-to-speech, Alexa NLP

Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on Amazon Web Services. At the company’s AWS re:invent… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 11:19 PM

Amazon Web Services says open-source MXNet will be the ‘foundation’ of future AI services

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services is making MXNet its deep-learning framework of choice, a top executive said this evening at… Read More

Nov 21, 2016, 10:17 AM

Is AI evil? No, and that question distracts us from the real concerns, says AI2’s Oren Etzioni

At times, modern artificial intelligence still feels like science fiction. A few decades ago, the kind of AI programs of… Read More

Nov 17, 2016, 6:34 PM

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is worried about automation displacing workers, but believes his social network can help

PALM DESERT, Calif.— During this year’s U.S. presidential race, there was a lot of chatter about the loss of jobs,… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 8:47 AM

Elon Musk’s OpenAI project taps Microsoft Azure as its main cloud partner

Microsoft’s Azure will be the preferred public-cloud service for running experiments at OpenAI, the $1-billion non-profit initiative from Tesla CEO Elon… Read More

Nov 11, 2016, 7:00 AM

Paul Allen’s AI2 expands smart search engine Semantic Scholar to neuroscience research

Paul Allen’s non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is expanding its flagship product Semantic Scholar to the world of… Read More

Oct 22, 2016, 2:18 PM

Seeking stronger China-U.S. tech connections, 1,500 gather near Seattle

There’s an old Chinese saying: “If you want to do anything good, easy and fast, you need connections,” said Nancy… Read More

Sep 29, 2016, 10:00 AM

Amazon’s $2.5M ‘Alexa Prize’ seeks chatbot that can converse intelligently for 20 minutes

Amazon will award up to $2.5 million in prizes and sponsorships in a new annual competition called the “Alexa Prize”— challenging university students… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 10:05 AM

This pop song, written with help from artificial intelligence, is actually super catchy

Modern music gets a lot of flack for sounding mass-produced, particularly genres like pop and country. But while many songs… Read More

Sep 18, 2016, 3:00 PM

It’s all ‘Einstein’ all the time as Salesforce adds AI to its entire product line

Salesforce is really laying on the jargon when it comes to Einstein, an artificial-intelligence addition to the CRM giant’s entire product line set… Read More

Sep 14, 2016, 12:56 PM

Appdiff raises $2.5M for AI-powered automated app testing platform

Testing apps is an integral part of getting them to market, but many tests are still run manually, costing days… Read More

Sep 2, 2016, 1:39 PM

Amazon poaches eBay A.I. chief, continues ramping up machine learning operations

Amazon is getting serious about machine learning. The Seattle tech titan hired eBay’s head of artificial intelligence, Hassan Sawaf, to… Read More

Sep 2, 2016, 8:59 AM

Amazon beefs up machine learning presence in UK with new team of researchers

Amazon is taking on a new machine learning team, to operate out of Cambridge, UK, according to a Facebook post spotted… Read More

Sep 1, 2016, 10:56 AM

AI100 study says artificial intelligence will change our lives but won’t kill us

A 100-year project conceived by Microsoft Research’s Eric Horvitz to trace the impacts of artificial intelligence has issued its first report:… Read More

Morgan movie trailer
Aug 31, 2016, 10:42 AM

Be afraid. Be very afraid: IBM’s Watson makes AI trailer about ‘Morgan’ AI movie

Experts may reassure us that artificial intelligence won’t take over the world anytime soon – but they just might invade the… Read More

KImera's Nigel is born
Aug 9, 2016, 9:00 PM

A bot is born: Kimera Systems adds ‘Nigel’ to the crowd of AI assistants

There’s a new bot in town: Nigel, a software assistant that its creators at Oregon-based Kimera Systems say can learn… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 2:51 PM

Will you click this headline? DimensionalMechanics’ first cloud-based AI products already know

DimensionalMechanics, a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup that just emerged from stealth mode in March, today released beta software aimed at specific groups of customers… Read More

Jul 30, 2016, 8:40 AM

Neither Trump nor Clinton is addressing the biggest challenge to jobs: automation

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither… Read More

Image: Bomb disposal robot
Jul 8, 2016, 10:19 AM

Killer bomb robot ends Dallas shooting ordeal and begins new debate over policing

Thursday night’s horrific Dallas shooting ordeal may well mark the first time police ended a standoff with a suspect by… Read More

Google Deepmind eye image analysis for AI
Jul 7, 2016, 6:45 PM

White House’s final artificial intelligence workshop highlights need for humans to hold the reins on AI

The White House wound up a nationwide series of workshops on artificial intelligence today on a cautionary note: Yes, AI… Read More

Sgt. Star from Next IT
Jun 30, 2016, 10:04 AM

Chatbot pioneer Next IT raising $20M to deploy an army of AI assistants

Before Siri, Cortana and Alexa, there was Next IT and its chatbots: The Spokane Valley company made it possible for… Read More

Jun 30, 2016, 7:10 AM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s book is called ‘Hit Refresh,’ due out in 2017

It’s not unprecedented for a Microsoft CEO to write a book. Remember “The Road Ahead”? Now Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella… Read More

Satya Nadella
Jun 28, 2016, 4:26 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)

Taking a page from Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn up six “musts”… Read More

Stephen Hawking
Jun 27, 2016, 3:29 PM

Stephen Hawking warns of ‘AI arms race’ – and reveals what most mystifies him

British physicist Stephen Hawking says the potential threat from artificial intelligence isn’t just a far-off “Terminator”-style nightmare. He’s already pointing… Read More

Image: TV AI prediction scene
Jun 24, 2016, 1:50 PM

Scientists force computer to binge on TV shows and predict what humans will do

Researchers have taught a computer to do a better-than-expected job of predicting what characters on TV shows will do, just… Read More

Jun 16, 2016, 10:24 AM

Amazon hires Carnegie Mellon machine-learning expert as Google expands its own AI initiatives

Both Amazon and Google are advancing their efforts in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that lets computers learn… Read More

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