Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 24 of 31

Sen. Cantwell and other policymakers want to create a federal committee to grapple with the coming AI revolution

Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell and several of her colleagues have introduced a bill that would set up a special advisory… Read More

Microsoft doubles down on its ‘AI for Earth’ initiative, pledging $50M at Paris climate event

Microsoft today pledged $50 million over five years for an initiative to use artificial intelligence to tackle the world’s most… Read More

Take two for ‘Person of the Year’ forecast: Unanimous AI goes with #MeToo campaign

Update: It took more than one try, but Unanimous AI’s crowdsourced hive mind was correct when it picked #MeToo as… Read More

Can AI help prevent suicide? Facebook hopes to better identify posts and get aid to users in need

Facebook already relies on the connections between people to help identify and prevent its users from harming themselves. The social… Read More

How Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the industry agenda at the biggest show in the cloud

For one week, at least, Amazon’s HQ2 is in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services will get the last word on… Read More

That flipping robot sparks new warning from Elon Musk about an AI apocalypse

Boston Dynamics’ video of a humanoid robot executing a perfect backflip sparked a lot of dark humor, and now billionaire… Read More

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Lessons from the Bushmen: How this tech-free society could foreshadow our technological future

Many people nowadays are concerned about the way technology is changing their lives. From worries about artificial intelligence taking jobs,… Read More

Crowdsourced AI platform picks Putin as top prospect for Time’s Person of the Year

The guessing game has already begun for Time’s Person of the Year pick, and according to a Silicon Valley company… Read More

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Report: Amazon Web Services planning AI-friendly version of its data warehouse

The Super Bowl of cloud computing — Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference — is two weeks away, and the company… Read More

Seven minutes of terror: AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a movie

As if the mere phrase “killer robots” weren’t scary enough, AI researchers and policy advocates have put together a video… Read More

Salesforce rolls out new AI-driven features as it gathers the masses for Dreamforce 2017

Salesforce plans to use its largest event of the year this week to highlight how its flagship salesforce-management service is… Read More

Uber AI Labs releases a programming language, its first public project

Uber is sharing the fruits of its research into self-driving cars and artificial intelligence in general, releasing a new programming… Read More

New project from The Linux Foundation hopes to make AI tools more accessible

The Linux Foundation introduced a new project Monday called the Acumos Project, an effort backed by AT&T and India’s Tech… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Build games to save the planet; A peek into the cutting edge of AI; and more

There are lots of ways to make our lives more sustainable — use less electricity, recycle plastic containers — but how… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches powerful new cloud instances for AI research backed by Nvidia’s GPUs

All the major cloud vendors are betting that artificial intelligence services will become a crucial part of cloud computing over… Read More

New incubator program at Paul Allen’s AI institute accepts English learning startup

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has accepted the first startup as part of its new incubator program. Seattle-based AI2 announced… Read More

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Satya Nadella, the full GeekWire Summit interview: Microsoft’s transformation and the future of tech

Satya Nadella is most well known for transforming Microsoft as its third, and current, CEO. He’s taken the company in… Read More

Google’s Deepmind AI unit releases new version of AlphaGo that learns on its own

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation… Read More

AI2 scales up Semantic Scholar search engine to encompass biomedical research

The inspiration for the latest extension of the Semantic Scholar search engine, adding tens of millions of biomedical studies, may… Read More

Amazon and Microsoft unveil ‘Gluon’ neural network technology, teaming up on machine learning

Microsoft and Amazon, which surprised the tech world with a partnership between their Cortana and Alexa virtual assistants, are back… Read More

Three technologies Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks will shape the future

With a rueful smile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged on stage at the GeekWire Summit that “one of the (really… Read More

Microsoft Ventures launches global AI startup competition with top VC firms

In the latest sign of Microsoft’s continued investment in artificial intelligence, Microsoft Ventures announced today that it is teaming up… Read More

A beloved horse dies in the night, and a startup is born bringing AI and machine learning to animals

Alexa Anthony has been around horses for much of her life. She grew up show jumping and became an NCAA… Read More

EchoNous announces $35M in new funding for mini, AI-driven ultrasound devices

EchoNous — a company based in Redmond, Wash., working to develop next-generation ultrasound devices — announced Thursday that it has received… Read More

5,000 people are working to make Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa smarter, with more to come

Amazon said Wednesday at an event unveiling the next generation Echo device that it has the equivalent of a small town… Read More

Stack Overflow uses Microsoft AI tech to create a chat bot that assists software developers

Software developers stuck with a thorny programming problem now have a new option when browsing Stack Overflow: a chatbot built… Read More

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

Do we need to be concerned about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence? Some people say there’s nothing to worry… Read More

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

Microsoft’s first mission statement envisioned a computer on every desk and in every home, but Bill Gates also had another… Read More

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

Meshfire, an artificial intelligence-backed social media management company based in Kirkland, Wash., will shut down Sept. 30. Meshfire CEO Eli Israel… Read More