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KImera's Nigel is born

A bot is born: Kimera Systems adds ‘Nigel’ to the crowd of AI assistants

There’s a new bot in town: Nigel, a software assistant that its creators at Oregon-based Kimera Systems say can learn… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence seeks engineers in continuation of hiring spree

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is currently hiring for several positions, continuing its year-long “hiring spree.” AI2 CEO Oren Etzion told GeekWire… Read More

Neither Trump nor Clinton is addressing the biggest challenge to jobs: automation

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither… Read More

Ray Kurzweil: The world isn’t getting worse — our information is getting better

Follow-up: Ray Kurzweil makes his case: This is ‘by far the best time in human history’ — despite what you… Read More

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Killer bomb robot ends Dallas shooting ordeal and begins new debate over policing

Thursday night’s horrific Dallas shooting ordeal may well mark the first time police ended a standoff with a suspect by… Read More

Google Deepmind eye image analysis for AI

White House’s final artificial intelligence workshop highlights need for humans to hold the reins on AI

The White House wound up a nationwide series of workshops on artificial intelligence today on a cautionary note: Yes, AI… Read More

Sgt. Star from Next IT

Chatbot pioneer Next IT raising $20M to deploy an army of AI assistants

Before Siri, Cortana and Alexa, there was Next IT and its chatbots: The Spokane Valley company made it possible for… Read More

Satya Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)

Taking a page from Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn up six “musts”… Read More

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking warns of ‘AI arms race’ – and reveals what most mystifies him

British physicist Stephen Hawking says the potential threat from artificial intelligence isn’t just a far-off “Terminator”-style nightmare. He’s already pointing… Read More

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Scientists force computer to binge on TV shows and predict what humans will do

Researchers have taught a computer to do a better-than-expected job of predicting what characters on TV shows will do, just… Read More

Q&A: AI2 researcher Peter Clark explains how the cloud is changing artificial intelligence

Peter Clark is a senior research manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, overseeing Project Aristo, an effort to… Read More

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

Siri

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

Project Emerge AI program

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

Human and machine hands

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

Virtual robot dog software

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

Oren Etzioni

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

Podcast

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

Podcast

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

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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

Podcast

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

Sophia and Ava

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

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