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‘Life 3.0’ gives you a user’s guide for superintelligent AI systems to come

by Alan Boyle on September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 at 2:08 pmComment

Do we need to be concerned about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence? Some people say there’s nothing to worry about, while others warn that a Terminator-level nightmare is dead… Read More

One year later, Microsoft AI and Research grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence

by Todd Bishop on September 22, 2017September 23, 2017 at 9:46 amComment

Microsoft’s first mission statement envisioned a computer on every desk and in every home, but Bill Gates also had another goal: that computers would someday be able to see, hear,… Read More

Social media AI startup Meshfire is closing, founders aim to find a new home for the technology

by Nat Levy on September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 at 10:55 amComment

Meshfire, an artificial intelligence-backed social media management company based in Kirkland, Wash., will shut down Sept. 30. Meshfire CEO Eli Israel penned a blog post announcing the closure, saying that the… Read More

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Introduction to Deep Learning for Developers

by Todd Bishop on August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 at 4:17 pmComment

In this session we will demonstrate how to get started with deep learning by launching a GPU machine with tutorial notebooks. We will go over fundamental concepts of Deep Learning… Read More

Microsoft’s AI chief wants to launch a chatbot in every country with more than 100M people

by Todd Bishop on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 at 3:04 pmComment

Microsoft has launched conversational chatbots in several countries so far, starting three years ago with Xiaoice in China, which quickly became a cultural phenomenon in the country. Since then the… Read More

Microsoft Pix update uses AI to turn iPhone app into a document scanner

by Nat Levy on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 at 8:52 amComment

Microsoft Pix was released last year with a goal of improving on the native iPhone camera experience, but it just wouldn’t be a Microsoft project without a business productivity use. Today Microsoft… Read More

New AI-driven features from New Relic aim to help ops engineers respond faster to issues

by Tom Krazit on September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 at 9:15 amComment

New Relic is building some new artificial intelligence capabilities into its core infrastructure monitoring product that will allow operations engineers to browse a curated feed of alerts and updates deemed… Read More

Microsoft and Facebook team up to give AI developers more flexibility

by Tom Krazit on September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 at 10:16 amComment

Building a neural network is hard. Most developers working on artificial intelligence projects are forced to commit early to a framework developed by experts in the field, and if they… Read More

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IBM makes a 10-year, $240M investment in artificial intelligence research at MIT

by Alan Boyle on September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 at 10:26 pmComment

IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment in artificial intelligence research through a new lab it’s creating in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The investment will support… Read More

With one eye on Amazon, Walmart plans to develop its own artificial intelligence networks

by Tom Krazit on September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 at 10:17 am1 Comment

If artificial intelligence lives up to the hype and becomes the most important aspect of cloud computing over the next several years, Walmart wants to make sure it’s prepared. The… Read More

Tech Moves: Conversica AI adds to leadership team; Madrona associate departs for AWS; etc.

by Clare McGrane on August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 at 11:06 am 3 Comments

Conversica — a startup developing artificial-intelligence-fueled sales software — may be headquartered in California, but it has distinct ties to the Seattle area. The company traces its roots back to Bellingham, Wash., and… Read More

Amplero raises $17.5 million to help humans and machines analyze vast expanses of marketing data

by Nat Levy on August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 at 8:27 amComment

Amplero, a Seattle startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered marketing technology, has picked up $17.5 million in a new round of funding. The Series B round was led by Greycroft Partners and Ignition Partners, with… Read More

Report: Amazon building fashionable AI that can quickly spot and reproduce the latest trends

by Nat Levy on August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 at 9:36 amComment

Amazon is building trendy artificial intelligence tools that can identify the latest fashion craze. MIT’s Technology Review reports that Amazon teams across the world are working on several tools to… Read More

Microsoft’s Project Brainwave puts ‘real-time artificial intelligence’ into high-tech chips

by Todd Bishop on August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 at 4:19 pmComment

Microsoft has developed a new system for deep learning, dubbed Project Brainwave, that embeds deep neural network technology into the company’s high-tech programmable computer chips to accelerate one of the… Read More

Versive raises $12.7M to solve security problems using artificial intelligence

by Tom Krazit on August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 at 12:30 amComment

If you’re working on a security startup in 2017, you’re more than likely applying artificial intelligence or machine learning techniques to automate threat detection and other time-consuming security tasks. After… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: A scary game bot, snooping via smartphone, and Google’s Seattle startup deal

by Clare McGrane on August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 at 6:37 amComment

On this episode of the Week in Geek Podcast, we start with two fascinating tech advances with not-so-great implications for humanity. First, researchers from the University of Washington’s Paul G.… Read More

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Microsoft using artificial intelligence to teach a machine to stay aloft

by Kurt Schlosser on August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 at 9:50 amComment

Paying attention to the “rise of the machines” increasingly means scanning the skies for things other than conventional aircraft or birds. But what if the line between the two begins… Read More

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A bigger risk than North Korea? What OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ bot says about artificial intelligence

by Todd Bishop on August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 at 9:01 am 2 Comments

Friday at The International, Valve’s big eSports competition in Seattle, the nonprofit OpenAI artificial intelligence research company unveiled a bot that defeated one of the world’s top professional gamers in the video game Dota 2, twice,… Read More

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

by Todd Bishop on August 13, 2017August 13, 2017 at 7:35 am 4 Comments

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping company’s artificial intelligence strategy under CEO Satya Nadella before leaving… Read More

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Elon Musk hails Dota 2 bot’s victory at The International, with OpenAI and Microsoft

by Alan Boyle on August 11, 2017August 13, 2017 at 5:03 pm 2 Comments

The Dota 2 esports tournament in Seattle, known as The International, demonstrates how video games have become hugely popular team sports — and today alpha geek Elon Musk took the… Read More

Trying to fill a job in AI? Stop using the term AI, advises listings language experts Textio

by Kurt Schlosser on August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 at 11:47 amComment

Leave it to the experts in machine learning to figure out that “machine learning” has lost its oomph. When it comes to terms in job postings which help fill those… Read More

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Embrace Deep Learning in your business without becoming an expert

by Todd Bishop on August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 at 12:41 pmComment

Deep learning is leading a technological revolution, overtaking such fields as speech recognition, machine translation, face recognition with an error rate lower than any human’s. Deep learning is responsible for… Read More

‘Alexa, I’m ready to walk’: Robotics company using Amazon’s AI to help control exoskeleton

by Kurt Schlosser on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 at 11:39 am1 Comment

It’s one thing to be wowed by Amazon’s Alexa and her ability to turn off Katy Perry, or turn on the lights. But what if the voice-activated artificial intelligence could… Read More

Seattle’s Versive teams up with Cloudera in post-pivot AI security push

by Tom Krazit on August 8, 2017August 7, 2017 at 4:46 pmComment

Three months after changing its name and deciding to focus exclusively on security, Versive is partnering with Cloudera to bring its artificial-intelligence powered security technology together with Cloudera’s big data… Read More

Microsoft’s new corporate vision: artificial intelligence is in and mobile is out

by Nat Levy on August 2, 2017August 4, 2017 at 12:56 pm 7 Comments

Microsoft filed its annual report Wednesday, and among the many pages of documents and numbers are insights on what the company sees as its core vision, and that appears to… Read More

AI2 lists top artificial intelligence systems in its Visual Understanding Challenge

by Alan Boyle on July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 at 10:55 pmComment

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

Clash of the Titans: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk trade zingers over AI fears

by Alan Boyle on July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 at 10:46 am 3 Comments

Techies, grab some popcorn: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk are throwing shade at each other over what Musk considers the scariest issue facing humanity: the rapid… Read More

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Elon Musk on how our cars will drive us – and how AI could threaten us – by 2037

by Alan Boyle on July 17, 2017September 24, 2017 at 1:01 pmComment

In the year 2037, non-autonomous vehicles will be as much of a curiosity as riding a horse is today, tech billionaire Elon Musk says. Musk also says that the rapid… Read More

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Learn how three experts are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to cloud computing

by Tom Krazit on July 16, 2017July 16, 2017 at 1:20 pm1 Comment

This time, it seems like it’s actually going to happen. We’ve been hearing promises about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are going to change the world for decades, but… Read More

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Testing Microsoft’s new AI for iPhone: Can this app really detect our ages and sense our moods?

by Todd Bishop on July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 at 4:44 pm1 Comment

Microsoft released a new app called Seeing AI for the iPhone this week. It’s billed as a “talking camera for the blind,” but it’s also a showcase for the company’s… Read More

artificial intelligence

‘Life 3.0’ gives you a user’s guide for superintelligent AI systems to come

One year later, Microsoft AI and Research grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence

Microsoft’s AI chief wants to launch a chatbot in every country with more than 100M people

Microsoft Pix update uses AI to turn iPhone app into a document scanner

New AI-driven features from New Relic aim to help ops engineers respond faster to issues

Microsoft and Facebook team up to give AI developers more flexibility

IBM makes a 10-year, $240M investment in artificial intelligence research at MIT

With one eye on Amazon, Walmart plans to develop its own artificial intelligence networks

Tech Moves: Conversica AI adds to leadership team; Madrona associate departs for AWS; etc.

Amplero raises $17.5 million to help humans and machines analyze vast expanses of marketing data

Report: Amazon building fashionable AI that can quickly spot and reproduce the latest trends

Microsoft’s Project Brainwave puts ‘real-time artificial intelligence’ into high-tech chips

Versive raises $12.7M to solve security problems using artificial intelligence

Week In Geek Podcast: A scary game bot, snooping via smartphone, and Google’s Seattle startup deal

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Microsoft using artificial intelligence to teach a machine to stay aloft

A bigger risk than North Korea? What OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ bot says about artificial intelligence

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Elon Musk hails Dota 2 bot’s victory at The International, with OpenAI and Microsoft

Trying to fill a job in AI? Stop using the term AI, advises listings language experts Textio

Embrace Deep Learning in your business without becoming an expert

‘Alexa, I’m ready to walk’: Robotics company using Amazon’s AI to help control exoskeleton

Seattle’s Versive teams up with Cloudera in post-pivot AI security push

Microsoft’s new corporate vision: artificial intelligence is in and mobile is out

AI2 lists top artificial intelligence systems in its Visual Understanding Challenge

Clash of the Titans: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk trade zingers over AI fears

Elon Musk on how our cars will drive us – and how AI could threaten us – by 2037

Learn how three experts are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to cloud computing

Testing Microsoft’s new AI for iPhone: Can this app really detect our ages and sense our moods?

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