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The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area

by Oren Etzioni on February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 at 11:53 am

Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a Seattle-based organization at the forefront of natural language processing research.… Read More

Why big data is not a priority anymore, and other key AI trends to watch

by Charlotte Schubert on November 3, 2022November 11, 2022 at 11:46 am

Artificial Intelligence models that generate entirely new content are creating a world of opportunities for entrepreneurs. And engineers are learning to do more with less. Those were some takeaways from… Read More

Oren Etzioni stepping down as CEO of Allen Institute for AI after nine years at research hub

by Kurt Schlosser on June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 at 1:21 pm

Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI, is stepping down from the artificial intelligence research organization he helped launch nearly nine years ago. A renowned expert… Read More

Inside the AI2 Incubator: Microsoft co-founder’s unfinished legacy fuels quest for new AI startups

by Todd Bishop on April 6, 2022April 23, 2022 at 7:03 am

As a key figure in the PC revolution, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen understood the power of new technologies to create world-changing companies. Later in life, Allen saw the same… Read More

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni to chair UiPath’s new AI advisory board

by Cara Kuhlman on November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 at 6:05 am

UiPath, a publicly traded “robotic automation process” company, announced that Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) CEO Oren Etzioni will chair its new artificial intelligence advisory board. The newly established… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

by Cara Kuhlman on June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 at 12:56 pm

— DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly formed National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. The task… Read More

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

by Cara Kuhlman & Taylor Soper on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 at 11:29 am

An “incredibly dynamic year of change,” a “new hope,” and a “gangbusters” year in which the tech sector will come “roaring back.” Those are some of the phrases used by… Read More

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AI vs. Coronavirus: How artificial intelligence is now helping in the fight against COVID-19

by Todd Bishop on March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 at 8:31 am

Artificial intelligence often raises concerns about privacy, bias and trickery in areas such as facial recognition and deep fake videos. But amidst the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, some technology… Read More

Study tracks China’s ‘startling’ challenge to America in artificial intelligence research

by Alan Boyle on March 13, 2019June 22, 2021 at 6:17 pm

China wants to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 — but a new analysis by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, suggests that Chinese researchers… Read More

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AI2’s Oren Etzioni to entrepreneurs: It’s not too late to ride the machine-learning wave

by Alan Boyle on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 at 10:46 pm

It may seem as if everyone’s already on the bandwagon for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with players ranging from giants like Amazon and Microsoft to startups like Xnor.ai and… Read More

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How Paul Allen’s plan to make AI more sensible aims to keep us humans safer

by Alan Boyle on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 at 3:25 pm

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s closer to home: making AI safer for humans. That’s the… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW student Christine Betts wins first Allen Institute for AI engineering scholarship

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 12, 2018January 12, 2018 at 1:52 pm

Christine Betts sometimes feels overwhelmed because she “only started programming in college” but a glance at her long list of accomplishments shows the college junior is miles ahead of many… Read More

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Our AI future: How artificial intelligence will revolutionize jobs, and what we can do about it

by Clare McGrane on December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 at 10:50 am

Artificial intelligence will change the world, for better and for worse — and we need to be prepared. That’s the takeaway from Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for… Read More

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What’s new at AI2? Paul Allen’s AI institute wins honors, and hints at more to come

by Alan Boyle on February 28, 2017February 27, 2017 at 9:06 pm

Three years after its founding, Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is racking up recognition in the field of AI research – and some of its research will have an… Read More

Is AI evil? No, and that question distracts us from the real concerns, says AI2’s Oren Etzioni

by Clare McGrane on November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 at 10:17 am

At times, modern artificial intelligence still feels like science fiction. A few decades ago, the kind of AI programs of today would have seemed almost outrageous — self-driving cars, systems that… Read More

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

by Nat Levy on October 17, 2016November 8, 2018 at 6:04 am

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have the ability to transform everything from transportation to medicine, but the industry has a long way to go to get to that point. Bloomberg… Read More

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

by Monica Nickelsburg on May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 at 4:02 pm

Between the University of Washington, a thriving tech community, and strong research institutions, like the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), many of the rapid developments in AI are playing… Read More

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

by Monica Nickelsburg on May 9, 2016May 9, 2016 at 3:31 pm

A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been interacting with all semester, was actually a robot. Jill, powered… Read More

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

by Alan Boyle on April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 at 10:14 am

Baseball players are judged by their batting averages, RBIs, ERAs and other statistics voluminous enough to fill a scorecard. But how do you rate researchers? The classic measure is citations: that is,… Read More

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

by Todd Bishop on April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 at 9:51 am

Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but we’re already experiencing it in real ways in our lives, whether we know it or not — in areas including speech… Read More

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AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’

by Monica Nickelsburg on March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 at 2:35 pm

Imagine a future where life’s most boring or dangerous tasks are handled by machines. Time otherwise spent commuting, scheduling appointments, sifting through mail, could be devoted to human passions instead. That’s… Read More

Amazon and Founders’ Co-op back new Seattle startup KITT.AI, born in Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator

by Todd Bishop on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016 at 2:31 pm

A new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup called KITT.AI, incubated inside Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), has landed funding from Founders’ Co-op and Amazon’s Alexa Fund — preparing to launch a… Read More

Tech leaders sound off on Star Wars: Favorite characters, business lessons and how they’d use the Force

by John Cook on December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 at 7:13 pm

The Force is strong in the tech industry. And you don’t have to travel to Dagobah to find it. Star Wars fans can be found in nearly every corner of the… Read More

Driving will be a hobby by 2035, and more predictions from AI expert Oren Etzioni

by Jacob Demmitt on October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 at 12:46 pm

Artificial intelligence thought leader Oren Etzioni stepped out on a limb on Friday to make some predictions about what the industry will look like in 20 years. He’s involved in some of… Read More

Paul Allen’s Artificial Intelligence Institute launches startup incubator with top minds in AI

by John Cook on May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 at 2:55 pm

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has established a new startup incubator at its offices in Seattle, recruiting two high-level researchers who will try to develop technologies in the emerging… Read More

Farewell, Farecast: Microsoft kills airfare price predictor, to the dismay of its creator

by John Cook on April 8, 2014September 5, 2014 at 2:24 pm

One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago… Read More

Paul Allen on the race between brain research and artificial intelligence — and why he’s betting on both

by Todd Bishop on September 26, 2013September 27, 2013 at 7:47 am

Over the past decade, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has committed $500 million toward understanding the brain through his Allen Institute for Brain Science — aiming to ultimately transform the treatment… Read More

UW search expert ‘disappointed’ with Microsoft Bing’s progress

by Taylor Soper on August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 at 12:26 pm

In 2008, Oren Etzioni sold his airfare price predictor startup Farecast to Microsoft. The Redmond software giant took the technology from Farecast and it became the basis for the price… Read More

Advice from startup vet Oren Etzioni: Take intellectual risks

by Taylor Soper on August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 at 11:01 am

Oren Etzioni hates taking risks. His first car was a Volvo, for example, and he’d just rather play it safe more often than not. But that risk is defined in terms… Read More

Forget MIT and Stanford: UW computer science department wins high praise in NYT piece

by John Cook on July 7, 2012July 7, 2012 at 5:08 pm

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain and asked him pointedly to name one missing ingredient that’s holding back Seattle’s technology community. The veteran venture capitalist… Read More

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