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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Tech Moves: Allen Institute hires Amazon Alexa machine learning leader ; Microsoft chairman takes on new investor role; and more

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has attracted another top player in the AI world. Doug Raymond, a longtime AI… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Valant seeks DevOps engineer to support electronic health records system

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are commonplace in doctors’ offices and hospitals around the world. They help doctors track a patient’s medical… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Common sense for AI, Amazon vs. Google in smart-home security

It was a big week for AI. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced he’s putting $125 million towards a new initiative… Read More

AI common-sense problem

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

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s… Read More

GeekWork Picks: AI2 seeks engineer to manage machine learning annotation pipelines

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is doing some of the most interesting AI and machine learning work in the… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle startup vet Gaurav Oberoi joins Paul Allen’s AI initiative; Axon scoops up Nokia vision team; PitchBook hires Marchex exec

Gaurav Oberoi, an entrepreneur and startup executive known for co-founding Precision Polling, BillMonk and SurveyMonkey Audience, has joined the Allen… Read More

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Allen Institute for AI sets up CTO residency program to link engineers with mentors

Is technical expertise the key to success in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence market? Or is it entrepreneurship? Top-notch… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Discuss.io seeks senior software engineer to evolve cloud-based video conferencing

Discuss.io is targeting a very specific niche: Making it easier and more affordable for companies around the globe to do market research.… Read More

Oren Etzioni

ClusterOne AI venture is coming to Seattle to warm up in Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator

A California-based AI startup called ClusterOne is moving its headquarters to Seattle to become the latest venture to benefit from… Read More

Podcast

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

Artificial intelligence will change the world, for better and for worse — and we need to be prepared. That’s the… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence seeks director for Semantic Scholar search engine

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has been working on an intelligent search engine for the past two years.… Read More

Marie Hagman

AI2 scales up Semantic Scholar search engine to encompass biomedical research

The inspiration for the latest extension of the Semantic Scholar search engine, adding tens of millions of biomedical studies, may… Read More

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Entrepreneurs swarm to get in on the idea factories at Intellectual Ventures and AI2

Less than two months after Intellectual Ventures and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence put out the call for entrepreneurs,… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI institute expands startup incubator after successful artificial intelligence spinouts

Paul Allen’s artificial intelligence experts are aiming to generate a new wave of AI startups in Seattle. The Microsoft co-founder’s Allen… Read More

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AI2 lists top artificial intelligence systems in its Visual Understanding Challenge

Some of the world’s top researchers in AI have proved their mettle by taking top honors in three challenges posed… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Accolade seeks engineers to fuel artificial intelligence revolution in healthcare

Anyone who’s visited a hospital or clinic in the United States knows that being a healthcare consumer is a difficult… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Allen Institute seeks applied research scientist to develop AI-fueled search platform

Some of the most interesting technological innovations today stem from artificial intelligence and machine learning. Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial… Read More

Academic search engines

Microsoft, Google and Baidu team up with Paul Allen’s AI2 on Open Academic Search

Microsoft, Google and Baidu may be competitors in the business world, but when it comes to open-access academic resources, they’re… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI group built a voice search for Alexa skills, but Amazon rejected it

Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is very skillful, now at more than 12,000 third-party capabilities, but it can sometimes be difficult… Read More

Oren Etzioni

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

Three years after its founding, Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is racking up recognition in the field of AI… 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

GeekWork Picks: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence seeks DevOps Lead to drive technical operations

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has emerged as a leader in AI research after its launch by Microsoft… Read More

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GeekWork Picks: Rover seeks engineers as its dog care platform continues to expand

Rover — one of this year’s Seattle 10, an award recognizing the most promising startups in the city — is hiring new… Read More

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

At times, modern artificial intelligence still feels like science fiction. A few decades ago, the kind of AI programs of… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI2 expands smart search engine Semantic Scholar to neuroscience research

Paul Allen’s non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is expanding its flagship product Semantic Scholar to the world of… 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

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

Oren Etzioni

GeekWork Picks: Paul Allen’s AI2 seeks Research Scientist amid ‘huge hiring spree’

Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, recently told GeekWire the company is on “a huge hiring… 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

GeekWork Picks: AnswerDash seeks Marketing Manager to help grow contextual Q&A service

AnswerDash, a spinout from the University of Washington, offers predictive technology to answer customer questions in context on websites, aiming to reduce costs… Read More

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