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artificial intelligence

Microsoft’s AI chief wants to launch a chatbot in every country with more than 100M people

Microsoft has launched conversational chatbots in several countries so far, starting three years ago with Xiaoice in China, which quickly… Read More

Microsoft Pix update uses AI to turn iPhone app into a document scanner

Microsoft Pix was released last year with a goal of improving on the native iPhone camera experience, but it just wouldn’t be… Read More

New AI-driven features from New Relic aim to help ops engineers respond faster to issues

New Relic is building some new artificial intelligence capabilities into its core infrastructure monitoring product that will allow operations engineers… Read More

Microsoft and Facebook team up to give AI developers more flexibility

Building a neural network is hard. Most developers working on artificial intelligence projects are forced to commit early to a… Read More

IBM Watson supercomputer

IBM makes a 10-year, $240M investment in artificial intelligence research at MIT

IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment in artificial intelligence research through a new lab it’s creating in partnership… Read More

With one eye on Amazon, Walmart plans to develop its own artificial intelligence networks

If artificial intelligence lives up to the hype and becomes the most important aspect of cloud computing over the next… Read More

Tech Moves: Conversica AI adds to leadership team; Madrona associate departs for AWS; etc.

Conversica — a startup developing artificial-intelligence-fueled sales software — may be headquartered in California, but it has distinct ties to the Seattle area.… Read More

Amplero raises $17.5 million to help humans and machines analyze vast expanses of marketing data

Amplero, a Seattle startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered marketing technology, has picked up $17.5 million in a new round of… Read More

Report: Amazon building fashionable AI that can quickly spot and reproduce the latest trends

Amazon is building trendy artificial intelligence tools that can identify the latest fashion craze. MIT’s Technology Review reports that Amazon… Read More

Microsoft’s Project Brainwave puts ‘real-time artificial intelligence’ into high-tech chips

Microsoft has developed a new system for deep learning, dubbed Project Brainwave, that embeds deep neural network technology into the… Read More

Versive raises $12.7M to solve security problems using artificial intelligence

If you’re working on a security startup in 2017, you’re more than likely applying artificial intelligence or machine learning techniques… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: A scary game bot, snooping via smartphone, and Google’s Seattle startup deal

On this episode of the Week in Geek Podcast, we start with two fascinating tech advances with not-so-great implications for… Read More

Microsoft AI sailplane

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Microsoft using artificial intelligence to teach a machine to stay aloft

Paying attention to the “rise of the machines” increasingly means scanning the skies for things other than conventional aircraft or… Read More

A bigger risk than North Korea? What OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ bot says about artificial intelligence

Friday at The International, Valve’s big eSports competition in Seattle, the nonprofit OpenAI artificial intelligence research company unveiled a bot that defeated one of the… Read More

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping… Read More

Dota 2 AI

Elon Musk hails Dota 2 bot’s victory at The International, with OpenAI and Microsoft

The Dota 2 esports tournament in Seattle, known as The International, demonstrates how video games have become hugely popular team… Read More

AI

Trying to fill a job in AI? Stop using the term AI, advises listings language experts Textio

Leave it to the experts in machine learning to figure out that “machine learning” has lost its oomph. When it… Read More

Bionik exoskeleton

‘Alexa, I’m ready to walk’: Robotics company using Amazon’s AI to help control exoskeleton

It’s one thing to be wowed by Amazon’s Alexa and her ability to turn off Katy Perry, or turn on… Read More

Seattle’s Versive teams up with Cloudera in post-pivot AI security push

Three months after changing its name and deciding to focus exclusively on security, Versive is partnering with Cloudera to bring… Read More

Microsoft’s new corporate vision: artificial intelligence is in and mobile is out

Microsoft filed its annual report Wednesday, and among the many pages of documents and numbers are insights on what the… Read More

Charades Challenge

AI2 lists top artificial intelligence systems in its Visual Understanding Challenge

Some of the world’s top researchers in AI have proved their mettle by taking top honors in three challenges posed… Read More

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

Clash of the Titans: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk trade zingers over AI fears

Techies, grab some popcorn: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk are throwing shade at each other over… Read More

Elon Musk on how our cars will drive us – and how AI could threaten us – by 2037

In the year 2037, non-autonomous vehicles will be as much of a curiosity as riding a horse is today, tech… Read More

Learn how three experts are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to cloud computing

This time, it seems like it’s actually going to happen. We’ve been hearing promises about how artificial intelligence and machine… Read More

Podcast

Testing Microsoft’s new AI for iPhone: Can this app really detect our ages and sense our moods?

Microsoft released a new app called Seeing AI for the iPhone this week. It’s billed as a “talking camera for… Read More

Element Data raises $3.5M to help companies make decisions with A.I. and machine learning

Element Data is on the path every startup hopes to walk. The company is adding high-level talent quickly; it’s about… Read More

Microsoft’s new AI app describes the world for the visually impaired — now available on iPhone

Microsoft released a new artificial intelligence app for iPhone this morning that can read text from signs and documents aloud,… Read More

Updated: Washington’s Sen. Cantwell prepping bill calling for AI committee

Artificial intelligence research is going to have major effects on the world, one way or another, and Senator Maria Cantwell… Read More

Nvidia, Baidu expand AI partnership to include cloud GPUs and self-driving cars

Baidu plans to announce a sweeping expansion of its partnership with graphics chip maker Nvidia on Wednesday, bringing Nvidia’s latest… Read More

UK regulators slap hospital involved in project with Google’s DeepMind over data handling

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research was dealt a minor setback Monday after U.K. regulators ruled a hospital it partnered with… Read More

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