artificial intelligence

Microsoft-backed universal blood test could start diagnosing disease ‘within a small number of years’

by James Thorne on June 11, 2019June 12, 2019 at 7:56 am1 Comment

REDMOND — A groundbreaking system that would use artificial intelligence to diagnose several diseases from a single blood test may not be far off. The project, a collaboration between Microsoft… Read More

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Alexa gets smarter about combining AI skills, starting with dinner and a movie

by Alan Boyle on June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 at 11:45 pmComment

LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant will soon get savvier about juggling its thousands of skills — starting with arranging all the elements for a night out. Cross-skill action… Read More

Is AI overhyped? Cloud startup CEOs call out proliferation of trendy technology

by Nat Levy on June 5, 2019June 7, 2019 at 12:55 pm1 Comment

The world’s biggest technology companies are pouring billions of dollars into developing sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities, but its usefulness in all but the most complex scenarios may be a bit… Read More

Here’s what every developer at every company needs to know, according to Microsoft’s CTO

by Nat Levy on June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 at 11:06 amComment

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are popular concepts in the tech world, but one of Microsoft’s top executives sees the technologies as must-haves for companies of all kinds. Microsoft Chief… Read More

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Startup Happy Hour at Jobscan

by Todd Bishop on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 at 8:26 amComment

Join Jobscan and other local startups for happy hour, where you can learn about what other entrepreneurial minds are working on and network with other founders, engineers and creatives! Any… Read More

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xTech + Impact 2019 Summit

by Todd Bishop on April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 at 8:02 amComment

How will the rise in exponential technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Blockchain help us to build a healthy and ethical… Read More

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Xnor releases AI2GO, a do-it-yourself software platform for artificial intelligence

by Alan Boyle on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 at 12:26 amComment

Now you too can put a little AI on your device, even if you’re not up on the ins and outs of artificial intelligence. The way to do it is… Read More

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AI researchers say San Francisco’s facial recognition ban just scratches the surface

by Alan Boyle on May 15, 2019May 16, 2019 at 9:06 amComment

San Francisco’s board of supervisors took a significant step this week when it voted to ban the use of facial recognition software for law enforcement purposes, but such measures by… Read More

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Dataware Symposium: An Event for the Data Driven

by Todd Bishop on April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 at 9:03 amComment

The fast-paced world of modern frameworks, tools, and applications have one thing in common: data. Data is an organization’s biggest digital asset, yet most organizations struggle to solve the same… Read More

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Experts from Google, T-Mobile and other tech frontiers weigh in on the future of AI

by Alan Boyle on April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 at 12:50 amComment

Artificial intelligence can rev up recommendation engines and make self-driving cars safer. It can even beat humans at their own games. But what else will it do? At today’s session… Read More

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Here’s how Amazon innovation guru Paul Misener uses machine learning at home

by Alan Boyle on April 24, 2019June 8, 2019 at 10:09 pm1 Comment

Taking advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning may be part of Paul Misener’s job as an Amazon executive, but he’s doing it for fun as well. Misener, Amazon’s vice… Read More

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How Microsoft is opening AI’s algorithmic ‘black box’ for greater transparency

by Alan Boyle on April 23, 2019April 24, 2019 at 12:22 am 2 Comments

Artificial intelligence can work wonders, but often it works in mysterious ways. Machine learning is based on the principle that a software program can analyze a huge set of data… Read More

Policing AI: Is it a task for government, industry, consumers or all of the above?

by Alan Boyle on April 18, 2019April 19, 2019 at 4:30 pmComment

It may not yet be clear how societies will guard against the potential downside of artificial intelligence — including algorithmic bias, invasions of privacy and unjustified profiling — but it’s… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Science fiction literature, biases in AI, and helping businesses go global

by Nicole Tanner on April 12, 2019April 12, 2019 at 11:00 amComment

— “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” That statement seems eerily on point for what’s going on in the world right now, but it’s actually… Read More

Senosis Health founder Shwetak Patel confirms he’s working on healthcare for Google

by James Thorne on April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 at 10:49 amComment

It has been nearly two years since Google quietly acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle startup that figured out how to turn ordinary smartphones into monitoring devices to detect pulmonary function,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts

by Nicole Tanner on April 5, 2019April 4, 2019 at 4:34 pmComment

More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global fascination with the great beyond led to a massive race between the United States and the… Read More

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

by Nicole Tanner on March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 at 10:00 amComment

There’s a lot of buzz and hype on AI, ML, deep-learning, within Microsoft and the competition, and for good reasons! But, how can you easily learn about it without being… Read More

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The Impact of AI on Future Workforce

by Nicole Tanner on March 12, 2019March 20, 2019 at 5:32 pmComment

Today, one of the hottest futurist topics we love to talk about is Artificial Intelligence. Nearly everyone is interested in how AI will impact the work they do. Not all questions… Read More

Turing Award honors a different kind of AI network with ‘Nobel Prize of computing’

by Alan Boyle on March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 at 1:15 pmComment

The three recipients of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” are sharing the $1 million award for their pioneering work with… Read More

Microsoft will be adding AI ethics to its standard checklist for product release

by Alan Boyle on March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 at 5:44 pm1 Comment

Microsoft will “one day very soon” add an ethics review focusing on artificial-intelligence issues to its standard checklist of audits that precede the release of new products, according to Harry… Read More

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Party like it’s $1,999: Jeff Bezos and Robert Downey Jr. will headline re:MARS fest in Vegas

by Alan Boyle on March 14, 2019April 19, 2019 at 10:17 am 2 Comments

Amazon didn’t have to look very far for one of the biggest headliners due to appear at re:MARS, the Seattle-based company’s open-to-the-public event focusing on artificial intelligence and other tech… Read More

Study tracks China’s ‘startling’ challenge to America in artificial intelligence research

by Alan Boyle on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 at 11:00 am1 Comment

China wants to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 — but a new analysis by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, suggests that Chinese researchers… Read More

Who’ll serve as AI’s watchdog? Experts trade suggestions at AI2 policy workshop

by Alan Boyle on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 at 5:57 pmComment

Do we need a National Algorithm Safety Board? How about licensing the software developers who work on critical artificial intelligence platforms? Who should take the lead when it comes to… Read More

AI2’s Oren Etzioni to entrepreneurs: It’s not too late to ride the machine-learning wave

by Alan Boyle on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 at 10:46 pm1 Comment

It may seem as if everyone’s already on the bandwagon for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with players ranging from giants like Amazon and Microsoft to startups like Xnor.ai and… Read More

Bill Gates lists 10 breakthrough technologies that address ‘important challenges’ of our time

by Kurt Schlosser on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 at 10:41 am 4 Comments

In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates has no doubt been presented with a range of evolving… Read More

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Artificial intelligence — and a few jokes — will help keep future Mars crews sane

by Alan Boyle on February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 at 2:47 pm 2 Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the first human explorers head for Mars, they’re likely to have a non-human judging their performance and tweaking their interpersonal relationships when necessary. NASA and outside… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Hacking education, comic books, artificial intelligence and robotics

by Nicole Tanner on February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 at 7:19 pmComment

It seems like we’ve moved to the Midwest or East Coast with Seattle weather lately. And days like these make us think about how technology can help kids continue to… Read More

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Xnor shrinks AI to fit on a solar-powered chip, opening up big frontiers on the edge

by Alan Boyle on February 13, 2019February 24, 2019 at 10:41 pmComment

It was a big deal two and a half years ago when researchers shrunk down an image-recognition program to fit onto a $5 computer the size of a candy bar… Read More

IBM Watson will now run on third-party clouds like Amazon Web Services

by Tom Krazit on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 at 8:15 amComment

Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence service, is taking its act on the road. IBM plans to announce later Tuesday at its IBM Think conference in San Francisco that Watson will soon… Read More

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White House initiative will boost artificial intelligence research and data-sharing

by Alan Boyle on February 11, 2019March 12, 2019 at 11:04 pmComment

The White House is moving forward with the American AI Initiative, a set of policies aimed at focusing the full resources of the federal government on the frontiers of artificial… Read More

artificial intelligence

Alexa gets smarter about combining AI skills, starting with dinner and a movie

Is AI overhyped? Cloud startup CEOs call out proliferation of trendy technology

Here’s what every developer at every company needs to know, according to Microsoft’s CTO

Startup Happy Hour at Jobscan

xTech + Impact 2019 Summit

Xnor releases AI2GO, a do-it-yourself software platform for artificial intelligence

AI researchers say San Francisco’s facial recognition ban just scratches the surface

Experts from Google, T-Mobile and other tech frontiers weigh in on the future of AI

Here’s how Amazon innovation guru Paul Misener uses machine learning at home

How Microsoft is opening AI’s algorithmic ‘black box’ for greater transparency

Policing AI: Is it a task for government, industry, consumers or all of the above?

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Science fiction literature, biases in AI, and helping businesses go global

Senosis Health founder Shwetak Patel confirms he’s working on healthcare for Google

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Impact of AI on Future Workforce

Turing Award honors a different kind of AI network with ‘Nobel Prize of computing’

Microsoft will be adding AI ethics to its standard checklist for product release

Party like it’s $1,999: Jeff Bezos and Robert Downey Jr. will headline re:MARS fest in Vegas

Study tracks China’s ‘startling’ challenge to America in artificial intelligence research

Who’ll serve as AI’s watchdog? Experts trade suggestions at AI2 policy workshop

AI2’s Oren Etzioni to entrepreneurs: It’s not too late to ride the machine-learning wave

Bill Gates lists 10 breakthrough technologies that address ‘important challenges’ of our time

Artificial intelligence — and a few jokes — will help keep future Mars crews sane

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Hacking education, comic books, artificial intelligence and robotics

Xnor shrinks AI to fit on a solar-powered chip, opening up big frontiers on the edge

IBM Watson will now run on third-party clouds like Amazon Web Services

White House initiative will boost artificial intelligence research and data-sharing

UW Foster Taste of TMMBA – Technology Management MBA

HNTB to host networking event for disadvantaged and small businesses

StartOut Seattle Networking Mixer & Launch Event