Articles about machine learning – Page 5 of 6

Salesforce adds ‘Einstein’ artificial intelligence tools to its customer service platform

Call centers ain’t what they used to be. That’s because customers rely on an increasingly wide range of tools to… Read More

Microsoft’s Cortana will now keep you accountable for promises you forgot you made

Cortana wants you to keep your promises. Microsoft’s virtual assistant, available on platforms including Windows 10, iOS and Android, has some… Read More

Xnor.ai spins out from Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator, raises $2.6M to put AI in every device

Bringing artificial intelligence technology into the hands of consumers and businesses is no easy task; doing so takes a ton of… Read More

LendingRobot launches hedge fund that uses blockchain and machine learning — with no human intervention

LendingRobot, an automated online investment-management service that calls itself a “robo-advisor,” is launching a hedge fund that the company says is… Read More

UW spinout KenSci raises $8.5M for machine learning platform that predicts which patients will get sick

Healthcare is an expensive industry. Every year, the United States spends about $9,000 per capita on healthcare, higher than in many… Read More

Machine Reading? Microsoft releases giant Q&A dataset to help researchers build AI tools that read and answer questions as well as humans

MS MARCO may sound like the name of a giant ocean liner (and, in fact, the MS Marco Polo does… Read More

UIEvolution to acquire Surround and become Xevo, with eye on transforming connected cars

The goal of further transforming how drivers interact with their cars is steering an acquisition and name change involving two Seattle-area… Read More

New Microsoft Translator feature enables real-time translations for conversations across multiple languages

Microsoft this morning announced a new feature for its Translator program that will let people use their smartphones to have conversations in… Read More

The busiest Amazon ’employee’ ever? Execs explain their plan to put Alexa everywhere

Amazon is crafting its Alexa voice-based digital assistant to be like one of its employees, and now, with the introduction… Read More

Amazon partners with Techstars for new Alexa accelerator at University of Washington

Amazon is looking for startups that can build innovative technologies using the company’s Alexa artificial intelligence platform. The tech giant today… Read More

Amazon Web Services says open-source MXNet will be the ‘foundation’ of future AI services

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services is making MXNet its deep-learning framework of choice, a top executive said this evening at… Read More

Q&A: Uber’s machine learning chief says pattern-finding computing fuels ride-hailing giant

Under the simple skin of Uber lies complexity you may not have considered: the logistics of predicting how long it… Read More

AI research is a ‘moral imperative’ with the power to save lives, experts say

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have the ability to transform everything from transportation to medicine, but the industry has a… Read More

These 10 machine learning and data science startups make up the newest Microsoft Accelerator class

Microsoft has chosen the 10 machine learning and data science companies that will make up the fourth class of its Seattle Accelerator. The startups hail… Read More

Amazon poaches eBay A.I. chief, continues ramping up machine learning operations

Amazon is getting serious about machine learning. The Seattle tech titan hired eBay’s head of artificial intelligence, Hassan Sawaf, to… Read More

Amazon beefs up machine learning presence in UK with new team of researchers

Amazon is taking on a new machine learning team, to operate out of Cambridge, UK, according to a Facebook post spotted… Read More

DefinedCrowd lands $1.1M from Amazon’s Alexa Fund and others to build out machine learning platform for AI and speech apps

DefinedCrowd, a platform that provides big data for speech and natural language processing technology, closed a $1.1 million seed funding round… Read More

After Turi acquisition, Apple hints at ambitions for new Seattle-based machine learning division

Apple’s new Seattle-based machine learning division, created through its $200 million acquisition of startup Turi earlier this month, will “build tools… Read More

Could Amazon reviews keep you from getting sick? Researchers analyze text to predict food recalls

For the past year, Amazon has been cracking down on sellers and third parties offering money for positive reviews. But for… Read More

$1.2M crowdsourced contest aims to improve breast-cancer detection through deep machine learning

Breast-cancer screening using mammograms certainly saves lives, but too many women receive false positives from the test and — even… Read More

Apple execs explain why the tech giant acquired machine learning startup Turi

Turi and Apple were the perfect match. That’s one tidbit from a new piece published by Backchannel editor Steven Levy… Read More

Algorithmia aims to democratize deep learning with expansion of its marketplace for algorithms

Deep learning — attempts to make software mimic the functions of the human brain — is one of the most… Read More

Turi releases new features to make machine learning easier, faster for apps

Turi, formerly Dato, today released the newest version of its GraphLab Create platform and several other features designed to make it… Read More

Machine learning startup Dato changes name to Turi after trademark battle

From GraphLab to Dato to Turi. Seattle-based machine learning startup Dato, which originally launched as GraphLab, announced today that it… Read More

Google acquires French machine learning startup Moodstocks in image-recognition push

Google announced today it has acquired Paris-based machine learning startup Moodstocks to work on smartphone image and item recognition. Moodstocks says… Read More

With $14M investment from top VCs, Ozlo opens Seattle office to help develop ‘personal’ AI chatbot

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech giants are all building their own “bots” that utilize artificial intelligence and… 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

Amazon goes open source with machine-learning tech, competing with Google’s TensorFlow

Amazon is making a bigger leap into open-source technology with the unveiling of its machine-learning software DSSTNE. The newly released program is competing… Read More

The future of machine learning: 5 trends to watch around algorithms, cloud, IoT, and big data

Algorithms. Cloud. Internet of Things. Data. No one can predict the future of technology with 100 percent accuracy. But these… 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