Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 21 of 31

Google kicks off a $25M competition for ideas that promote ‘AI for Social Good’

Google today unveiled a $25 million initiative called the Google AI Impact Challenge, aimed at soliciting and supporting projects that… Read More

AI is integral to the future of healthcare — but for now, so are humans

Artificial intelligence has been around for half a century, but it has only recently become a real player in the… Read More

Here’s the one key advantage Seattle’s tech ecosystem has over Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley may be the startup capital of the world, but Seattle has a leg up when it comes what… Read More

Boeing steps up its focus on ‘Disruptive Computing and Networks’ for aerospace

Boeing is raising its profile on computational frontiers ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum communications by setting up a new… Read More

Univ. of Washington researchers unveil Prescience, an AI system that predicts problems during surgery

During surgery, anesthesiologists have a lot to keep track of. They need to monitor patients’ vital signs and administer the… Read More

How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic

Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people,… Read More

Facebook’s PyTorch AI framework standard now supported by all major cloud vendors and chip makers

One of the key emerging standards in artificial intelligence research, Facebook’s PyTorch 1.0 framework, has received support from Amazon Web… Read More

Paul Allen enlists machine-learning tools for monitoring wildlife and ecosystems

Paul Allen has made a name for himself as a co-founder of Microsoft, a supporter of artificial intelligence research and… Read More

Microsoft acquires Lobe, an AI startup working on easy-to-use deep-learning development tools

Artificial intelligence tools will never be widely used if it takes decades of expertise to put them into action, which… Read More

Backed by former Google China leader Kai-Fu Lee, OneClick is building an ‘Excel for AI’

Equipped with an experienced founding team and investment from a renowned artificial intelligence expert, OneClick.AI is on a mission to… Read More

Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year

After an interesting year for Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon… Read More

Stormy Daniels, Santa and marijuana: Amazon cleans up Alexa’s answers to certain kid questions

We know kids have always said the darndest things, but in 2018, with the growing ubiquity of voice assistants in… Read More

Salesforce plans to open-source the technology behind its Einstein machine-learning services

Salesforce is open-sourcing the method it has developed for using machine-learning techniques at scale — without mixing valuable customer data… Read More

TLDR: A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa, Spin’s uncertain future in Seattle, fighting robots at Seattle Art Fair

Today’s featured stories A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI… Read More

A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI

Inside its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Amazon provided NBC’s “Today” show with an exclusive look behind closed doors at the… Read More

Mindshare Medical launches AI cancer screening tech that can see data ‘beyond our perception’

You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone either has a cancerous tumor or they don’t. In practice, it’s much… Read More

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee voices concern over impact of AI and automation on jobs

News Brief: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the coming age of wider automation and smarter artificial intelligence will require upgrades… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Get curious about making games; GeekWire’s Playbook series; and more

For many people, games are more than just a fun past time. From cutting-edge virtual reality games to some old-fashioned live-action… Read More

Apple’s Carlos Guestrin cautions AI leaders to think very carefully about how they use their data

The rise of machine learning has been one of the most exciting developments in modern technology, but according to Carlos… Read More

Lessons in artificial intelligence from Nest, Audi and a cockerel

The most important thing to get right about AI is what you are trying to optimize. For all the hype… Read More

AI2 taps University of Washington researcher to lead $125M ‘common sense AI’ initiative

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle is making an ambitious bid to give AI common sense, a major factor… Read More

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends AI robot pal and other experiments to space station

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending an AI-enabled, sphere-shaped robot… Read More

Dive into World Cup action: AI researchers turn soccer videos into 3-D ‘holograms’

News Brief: Computer scientists have trained a neural network to transform the action from pre-recorded videos of soccer games into… Read More

TLDR: Uber could use AI to identify drunk riders, big bets on energy storage, LEGO Seattle

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Tableau acquires MIT AI spinoff Empirical Systems, opens new R&D center in Boston area

Tableau Software has acquired Empirical Systems, an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass., planning to integrate Empirical’s technology… Read More

Life lessons from artificial intelligence: What Microsoft’s AI chief wants computer science grads to know about the future

Artificial intelligence has exploded, and perhaps no one knows it more than Harry Shum, the executive vice president in charge… Read More

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