Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 20 of 31

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

— “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” That statement seems eerily on point for what’s… Read More

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

It has been nearly two years since Google quietly acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle startup that figured out how to… Read More

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

More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global fascination with the great beyond led… Read More

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

The three recipients of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” are… Read More

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

Microsoft will “one day very soon” add an ethics review focusing on artificial-intelligence issues to its standard checklist of audits… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule

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

Amazon didn’t have to look very far for one of the biggest headliners due to appear at re:MARS, the Seattle-based… Read More

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

China wants to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 — but a new analysis by Seattle’s Allen… Read More

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

Do we need a National Algorithm Safety Board? How about licensing the software developers who work on critical artificial intelligence… Read More

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

It may seem as if everyone’s already on the bandwagon for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with players ranging from… Read More

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

In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates… Read More

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the first human explorers head for Mars, they’re likely to have a non-human judging their performance… Read More

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

It seems like we’ve moved to the Midwest or East Coast with Seattle weather lately. And days like these make… Read More

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

It was a big deal two and a half years ago when researchers shrunk down an image-recognition program to fit… Read More

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

Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence service, is taking its act on the road. IBM plans to announce later Tuesday at its… Read More

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

The White House is moving forward with the American AI Initiative, a set of policies aimed at focusing the full… Read More

Artificial intelligence plays on your team in Iconary, a picture puzzle game from AI2

For decades, the games that put artificial intelligence to the test have been played human vs. machine – whether it’s checkers,… Read More

Amazon launches re:MARS event focusing on AI, as second stage to invite-only MARS

Amazon’s annual invitation-only event on machine learning, automation, robotics and space — known as Mars — has become a high-tech highlight for… Read More

Here’s what’s cooking inside Nvidia’s new AI robotics research lab in Seattle

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interacted with a sensitive robotic hand at today’s open house for his company’s robotics research lab… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Supporting women in tech, and exploring the mysteries of the universe

Women in Cloud: If you’re like most women who work in the tech industry, you’ve probably experienced a hurdle or… Read More

What did the mice say? DeepSqueak uses AI to translate ultrasonic vocalizations

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine have developed a software program that enlists artificial intelligence to decipher… Read More

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies go live with AI engine for universal diagnostic blood test

It’s been one day short of a year since Microsoft partnered with Adaptive Biotechnologies to create a blood test with… Read More

I got my parents an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas and here’s how they’re getting along with Alexa

I spend a lot of time talking to my parents about the shows they’re watching on TV or the films… Read More

Will rogue AI chatbots emerge in 2019? Here’s what to watch — and listen — for in the new year

“Hello, I’m John. Do you need any assistance today?” asks a pop-up window randomly as you browse a shopping site.… Read More

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More

Former MIT and Google researchers raise $5.3M for ‘artificial intelligence compiler’ startup Canotic

Canotic is a new artificial intelligence startup based in Seattle and Berlin that today announced a $5.3 million seed round… Read More

Leading University of Washington professor joins AI2 as artificial intelligence talent wars continue

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research organizations, has hired yet another… Read More

Microsoft acquires bot studio XOXCO to boost conversational AI offerings

Microsoft has acquired XOXCO, an Austin-based company that builds bots and conversational artificial intelligence tools, the latest in a series… Read More

Google wants to make it easier for cloud customers to find AI tools that fit their needs

Google plans to introduce a central repository for machine-learning tools Thursday, with the aim of making it easier for companies… Read More

AI2’s Semantic Scholar spices up academic search engine with blogs, videos and more

You wouldn’t use an academic search engine to look for cat videos — but if there’s a video with cats… Read More

Report: Microsoft picks new chip maker for AI co-processors on Azure, cutting Intel’s business in half

Xilinx is reportedly the beneficiary of a decision by Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure wizards to add another chip supplier to its… Read More