Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 29 of 31

Amazon hires Carnegie Mellon machine-learning expert as Google expands its own AI initiatives

Both Amazon and Google are advancing their efforts in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that lets computers learn… Read More

Hey, Siri, get busy: Apple finally gives developers access to its personal assistant

After nearly five years, Apple will finally give developers access to Siri, its iOS (and now macOS) virtual assistant, thus… Read More

Second-opinion software: Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz on how AI can save patients’ lives

Someday soon, your physician may be second-guessed by an artificial intelligence program – and you’ll probably be healthier for it, according to… Read More

Watch AI experts weigh in on the good (and potential evil) of artificial intelligence

Experts on artificial intelligence are following up on the first White House workshop on artificial intelligence, presented last month in… Read More

Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day: Cloud and AI innovations from 9 emerging startups

Updated below with video from event. The Summer 2016 cohort of startups at Microsoft Accelerator’s Machine Learning Demo Day in Seattle… Read More

First White House AI workshop focuses on how machines (plus humans) will change government

Intelligent machines won’t be ruling the world anytime soon – but what happens when they turn you down for a loan,… Read More

Guest commentary: The real threat of artificial intelligence

Many people find recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) quite alarming. Indeed, luminaries, ranging from Nobel laureate Stephen Hawking to… Read More

University of Washington will host first-ever White House workshop on artificial intelligence

Between the University of Washington, a thriving tech community, and strong research institutions, like the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence… Read More

How to train your robot: Treat it like a dog

To figure out the best way for a robot to move, designers have turned to snakes, cheetahs, fish and even… Read More

AI2 CEO calls for ‘full disclosure’ in artificial intelligence after students learn their TA is really a bot

A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been… Read More

Who’s hot in academia? Semantic Scholar dives more deeply into the data

Baseball players are judged by their batting averages, RBIs, ERAs and other statistics voluminous enough to fill a scorecard. But… Read More

Conversational AI developer Next IT raises new funding as chatbots take off

The world of chatbots is growing quickly. Microsoft and Facebook both have frameworks to let third parties build bots into their chat services.… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon’s Alexa returns as our special guest

One of the most popular guests ever to appear on our weekly GeekWire radio show is Amazon’s Alexa, the voice-enabled virtual assistant… Read More

Report: Amazon acquired the artificial intelligence image analysis startup Orbeus

Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions are growing, with rumors surfacing today that it purchased an AI startup focusing on image processing. Amazon… Read More

Why is AI female? How our ideas about sex and service influence the personalities we give machines

Consider the artificially intelligent voices you hear on a regular basis. Are any of them men? Whether it’s Apple’s Siri,… Read More

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Interview: Paul Allen’s artificial intelligence guru on the future of robots and humanity

Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but we’re already experiencing it in real ways in our lives, whether… Read More

Robots for sale? Price drop in the android market could open new frontiers for AI

Artificial intelligence and robots are hot topics right now, but will we ever get to the stage we saw 50… Read More

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AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’

Imagine a future where life’s most boring or dangerous tasks are handled by machines. Time otherwise spent commuting, scheduling appointments, sifting… Read More

Experts work to turn artificial intelligence into a friendly face – but it doesn’t always succeed

Can artificially intelligent robots be our friends? Our helpmates? Our companions? Roboticists and AI researchers are trying to make it… Read More

Microsoft’s millennial chatbot Tay.ai pulled offline after Internet teaches her racism

Well, that escalated quickly. Less than 24 hours after first talking with the public, Microsoft’s millennial-minded chatbot Tay was pulled offline amid… Read More

Meet ‘Tay’: Microsoft debuts millennial-minded AI chatbot to understand how the kids talk

If you’re “an old,” understanding “teenz” can be as hard as understanding your cat. But Microsoft is trying to change that with… Read More

Geek trash talk: Facebook AI chief disses Google’s AlphaGo victory over Lee Sedol

As Google’s DeepMind team bathed in the accolades that came with building an artificial intelligence machine that decisively kicked the… Read More

Man vs. Machine: Google’s AlphaGo leaves little doubt as to better Go player in tournament’s final match

Maybe Lee Sedol can take comfort in the fact that even as machines outperform humans in a growing number of tasks, they… Read More

Most Americans expect robots to take over human work, but few think their jobs are in jeopardy

Humanity is sitting on the cusp of an artificial intelligence boom, as the technology transitions from rare and experimental to… Read More

Human outsmarts AI: AlphaGo program loses a game to Go champion Lee Sedol

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program may have won the $1 million five-game Go match with three straight wins, but Go… Read More

AlphaGo AI program wins $1 million prize in Go showdown with champion Lee Sedol

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program will take home the $1 million prize after winning the first three games in its… Read More

Allen Institute joins in IARPA’s massive MICrONS project to create a tiny bit of virtual brain tissue

Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is in on a multimillion-dollar campaign to trace the connections between the neurons in a… Read More

AlphaGo AI program gets stronger, beats champion Lee Sedol again in second game of Go showdown

The second game of a million-dollar, man-vs.-machine Go showdown was a real nail-biter, but the outcome was a repeat of the first… Read More

Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program won the first of five Go games in a milestone million-dollar match against South… Read More

Seattle Go players plan watch parties for Google’s man-vs.-machine showdown

This month’s human-vs.-machine Go match between South Korean legend Lee Sedol and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program is a teachable… Read More