Electronic Health Records (EHR) are commonplace in doctors’ offices and hospitals around the world. They help doctors track a patient’s medical treatments — but what about mental health treatment? Valant, a… Read More
It was a big week for AI. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced he’s putting $125 million towards a new initiative to create “common sense” for AI that will help the… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s closer to home: making AI safer for humans. That’s the… Read More
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is doing some of the most interesting AI and machine learning work in the world, right here in Seattle, and it’s looking to add… Read More
Gaurav Oberoi, an entrepreneur and startup executive known for co-founding Precision Polling, BillMonk and SurveyMonkey Audience, has joined the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) as an entrepreneur in residence, GeekWire… Read More
Is technical expertise the key to success in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence market? Or is it entrepreneurship? Top-notch engineers with a yen to build a startup can get… Read More
Discuss.io is targeting a very specific niche: Making it easier and more affordable for companies around the globe to do market research. The startup was founded in Seattle in 2012 by a… Read More
A California-based AI startup called ClusterOne is moving its headquarters to Seattle to become the latest venture to benefit from the incubator program at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.… Read More
Artificial intelligence will change the world, for better and for worse — and we need to be prepared. That’s the takeaway from Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for… Read More
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has been working on an intelligent search engine for the past two years. Called Semantic Scholar, the program helps researchers and academics sort… Read More
The inspiration for the latest extension of the Semantic Scholar search engine, adding tens of millions of biomedical studies, may well have come from Marie Hagman’s aching stomach. As senior… Read More
Less than two months after Intellectual Ventures and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence put out the call for entrepreneurs, business is booming. “We might be sitting here in a… Read More
Paul Allen’s artificial intelligence experts are aiming to generate a new wave of AI startups in Seattle. The Microsoft co-founder’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) announced Tuesday it is expanding… Read More
Some of the world’s top researchers in AI have proved their mettle by taking top honors in three challenges posed by the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The institute,… Read More
Anyone who’s visited a hospital or clinic in the United States knows that being a healthcare consumer is a difficult job. Dealing with complicated medical and insurance systems while worrying… Read More
Some of the most interesting technological innovations today stem from artificial intelligence and machine learning. Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is working… Read More
Microsoft, Google and Baidu may be competitors in the business world, but when it comes to open-access academic resources, they’re all working together – thanks to a collaboration created by Seattle’s… Read More
Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is very skillful, now at more than 12,000 third-party capabilities, but it can sometimes be difficult to wade through them all and discover new skills, and… Read More
Three years after its founding, Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is racking up recognition in the field of AI research – and some of its research will have an… Read More
Bringing artificial intelligence technology into the hands of consumers and businesses is no easy task; doing so takes a ton of computing and processing power. This is why it’s difficult to… Read More
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has emerged as a leader in AI research after its launch by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2014. To help support that work,… Read More
Rover — one of this year’s Seattle 10, an award recognizing the most promising startups in the city — is hiring new engineers as its dog care platform continues to expand. The… Read More
At times, modern artificial intelligence still feels like science fiction. A few decades ago, the kind of AI programs of today would have seemed almost outrageous — self-driving cars, systems that… Read More
Paul Allen’s non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is expanding its flagship product Semantic Scholar to the world of neuroscience. The smart search engine, which helps scientists hone their… Read More
Machine learning and artificial intelligence have the ability to transform everything from transportation to medicine, but the industry has a long way to go to get to that point. Bloomberg… Read More
Peter Clark is a senior research manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, overseeing Project Aristo, an effort to build an AI system with the ability to answer questions… Read More
Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, recently told GeekWire the company is on “a huge hiring spree.” “We’re hiring to grow to 75 people or so… Read More
A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been interacting with all semester, was actually a robot. Jill, powered… Read More
AnswerDash, a spinout from the University of Washington, offers predictive technology to answer customer questions in context on websites, aiming to reduce costs and improve the self-help experience for users. The company is currently… Read More
Baseball players are judged by their batting averages, RBIs, ERAs and other statistics voluminous enough to fill a scorecard. But how do you rate researchers? The classic measure is citations: that is,… Read More