Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 25 of 31

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

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 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

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

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

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

‘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