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artificial intelligence

Mystery solved? Amazon explains what cracked up Alexa, and what they’re going to do about it

OK, don’t laugh. There’s been enough of that, apparently. After reports about its Alexa-enabled devices laughing out loud for no… Read More

Echo Dot

Machine learning or laughing? Amazon’s Alexa is freaking people out with unprovoked chuckle

It’s one thing to believe that Amazon’s Alexa is constantly listening to us, but quite another to worry that she’s… Read More

Salesforce wants to make it easier to extract analytical data from its service with support for natural-language queries

For lots of people, trying to use powerful analytics tools without a little training in the language of data science… Read More

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

Google ad blitz showcases a life made easier with its Assistant, and Nest delivers prom night advice

Amazon may have made a splash during last month’s Super Bowl with an Alexa ad that dominated water cooler conversations,… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Common sense for AI, Amazon vs. Google in smart-home security

It was a big week for AI. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced he’s putting $125 million towards a new initiative… Read More

AI common-sense problem

How Paul Allen’s plan to make AI more sensible aims to keep us humans safer

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s… Read More

Paul Allen to invest $125M for new ‘common sense AI’ project, aims to achieve ‘major breakthroughs’

Paul Allen is pouring more money into artificial intelligence research. The Microsoft co-founder on Wednesday announced Project Alexandria, a new… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

Algorithmia launches blockchain-based protocol for machine-learning algorithm shoppers

Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia… Read More

Microsoft and Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi deepen ties with new AI and cloud partnership

Microsoft and Chinese electronics company Xiaomi agreed to a new strategic partnership focused on artificial and cloud technology, further cementing… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: MIT’s president on human intelligence and the quest for smarter machines

Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? We explored that topic this week with Rafael Reif,… Read More

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts, aiming at Echo, cameras, and AI

Amazon has been designing its own chips for a few years, ever since acquiring Annapurna Labs in 2016, but it… Read More

After raising $93M, Pittsburgh’s Petuum aims to hire 120 people this year in quest to be the ‘VMware of AI’

PITTSBURGH — Petuum moved into its new office 10 months ago. Now, the early-stage startup is already planning to expand into… Read More

Startup Spotlight: An AI-enabled, treat-tossing doggie camera launches Tomofun’s success

Entrepreneur Victor Chang is going to let you in on the secret of how to rocket to Amazon’s top sellers… Read More

Facebook shakes up its AI organization, hires IBM Watson creator to lead research and product

Facebook is changing the way it works on artificial intelligence technology, consolidating its research lab and the team responsible for… Read More

AI2 team meeting

Allen Institute for AI sets up CTO residency program to link engineers with mentors

Is technical expertise the key to success in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence market? Or is it entrepreneurship? Top-notch… Read More

Bird drawing by bot

The art of artificial intelligence: Microsoft bot draws what you describe, pixel by pixel

Want to order up a drawing? Say you want a picture of a bird with a yellow crown and black… Read More

Amazon Echo with Alexa

Getting to know you: Amazon is widening the repertoire for Alexa AI voice assistant

G’day, Alexa: Amazon’s digital voice assistant is getting an Australian accent for its Down Under debut this week, but there’s… Read More

Oren Etzioni

ClusterOne AI venture is coming to Seattle to warm up in Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator

A California-based AI startup called ClusterOne is moving its headquarters to Seattle to become the latest venture to benefit from… Read More

In new book, Microsoft cautions humanity to develop AI ethics guidelines now

It’s 2038 and — like most businesses these days — a tech company is using artificial intelligence to scan job… Read More

Steve Guggenheimer

How Microsoft is working AI into its software without you even knowing it

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Don’t expect Microsoft’s consumer software to hype its artificial-intelligence features. For the most part, the AI smarts are… Read More

Google unveils Cloud AutoML, a new set of cloud services that promise easier machine learning

Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: How AI is making humans the ‘fundamental thing in the internet of things’

Twenty years ago, in 1998, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single hospital room with a personal computer… Read More

Are you dumber than a robot? Amazon ‘Turing Test via Failure’ flips CAPTCHA on its head in nod to AI

To err is human. To prove you’re not a computer by making a mistake is divine. That’s the premise of… Read More

Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotech on AI-driven blood test to diagnose dozens of diseases at once

The human immune system is incredibly complex and incredibly smart. Your immune system knows when you’re getting sick, sometimes days,… Read More

Chinese tech giants Baidu and Huawei team up for wide-ranging partnership in AI, AR and more

Two Chinese tech giants with offices in the Seattle area are teaming up. Baidu, the Chinese search giant, and smartphone… Read More

Experts explain why machine learning will make some jobs easier – and kill off others

Computer scientists have created artificial-intelligence algorithms that are at least as good as trained humans at recognizing the signs of… Read More

Microsoft’s AI-powered iPhone camera app can now take multi-directional panoramas and turn videos into comic strips

Microsoft is out with a pair of updates to its AI-powered photo app Pix for iOS to let users take… Read More

Playing poker with Libratus

How the Libratus AI program bested expert poker players in no-limit Texas Hold’em

You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting… Read More

Chinese tech giant Tencent is poised to be a leader in AI, says head of new Seattle research lab

Judging by one of the company’s slogans — “AI in all” — it’s clear that Chinese tech powerhouse Tencent sees giant… Read More

Our solar system has met its match: AI helps scientists find a star’s eighth planet

We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours.… Read More

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