Artificial intelligence software programs are becoming shockingly adept at carrying on conversations, winning board games and generating artwork — but what about creating software programs? In a newly published paper,… Read More
Phaidra, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for industrial customers ranging from vaccine manufacturers to paper mills, raised $25 million. The startup, led by alum from Alphabet’s AI research hub… Read More
The lab of David Baker at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design has released its application to solve one of the toughest problems in the life sciences: how… Read More
Google is practicing what it preaches, handing control of one of the most vital components of its data center operation over to its machine-learning algorithms during the past few months.… Read More
Google continues to focus on ways it can use its artificial intelligence research to court cloud customers, announcing Tuesday that it will make the text-to-speech technology inside some of its… Read More
Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation of its AlphaGo system: the machines are getting smarter. AlphaGo… Read More
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research was dealt a minor setback Monday after U.K. regulators ruled a hospital it partnered with on a medical diagnostic app improperly handled medical data, and… Read More
For the past week or so, a mystery player has been logging into online Go game servers and beating the world’s best. Today, the player’s identity was revealed at last.… Read More
Text-to-speech technology isn’t great. I’ve always found the robotic drone of computerized voices a bit grating — a sentiment that came up on a recent episode of GeekWire Radio when… Read More
The White House wound up a nationwide series of workshops on artificial intelligence today on a cautionary note: Yes, AI promises to ease many of humanity’s ills, but humanity needs… Read More
Maybe Lee Sedol can take comfort in the fact that even as machines outperform humans in a growing number of tasks, they still can’t feel sadness. Sedol’s eyes filled with tears on… Read More
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 game: Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program vanquished Go champion… Read More
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program won the first of five Go games in a milestone million-dollar match against South Korean champion Lee Sedol today – marking another milestone for… Read More
This month’s human-vs.-machine Go match between South Korean legend Lee Sedol and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program is a teachable moment – not only for experts in the field of artificial… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Both sides in next month’s big $1 million AI-vs.-human Go match say they’re confident they’ll prevail. But Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program has a secret weapon: It’s expanding… Read More
The key to unlocking the power of artificial intelligence is teaching machines to think like humans. Now Google is one step closer to achieving that goal. The tech giant’s DeepMind AI… Read More
Mark another milestone in the rise of the machines: An artificial intelligence program pioneered by Google DeepMind has learned how to play the game of Go well enough to beat… Read More