Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 14 of 21

After raising $93M, Pittsburgh’s Petuum aims to hire 120 people this year in quest to be the ‘VMware of AI’

PITTSBURGH — Petuum moved into its new office 10 months ago. Now, the early-stage startup is already planning to expand into… Read More

Startup Spotlight: An AI-enabled, treat-tossing doggie camera launches Tomofun’s success

Entrepreneur Victor Chang is going to let you in on the secret of how to rocket to Amazon’s top sellers… Read More

Facebook shakes up its AI organization, hires IBM Watson creator to lead research and product

Facebook is changing the way it works on artificial intelligence technology, consolidating its research lab and the team responsible for… Read More

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

The art of artificial intelligence: Microsoft bot draws what you describe, pixel by pixel

Want to order up a drawing? Say you want a picture of a bird with a yellow crown and black… Read More

Getting to know you: Amazon is widening the repertoire for Alexa AI voice assistant

G’day, Alexa: Amazon’s digital voice assistant is getting an Australian accent for its Down Under debut this week, but there’s… Read More

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

In new book, Microsoft cautions humanity to develop AI ethics guidelines now

It’s 2038 and — like most businesses these days — a tech company is using artificial intelligence to scan job… Read More

How Microsoft is working AI into its software without you even knowing it

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Don’t expect Microsoft’s consumer software to hype its artificial-intelligence features. For the most part, the AI smarts are… Read More

Google unveils Cloud AutoML, a new set of cloud services that promise easier machine learning

Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: How AI is making humans the ‘fundamental thing in the internet of things’

Twenty years ago, in 1998, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single hospital room with a personal computer… Read More

Are you dumber than a robot? Amazon ‘Turing Test via Failure’ flips CAPTCHA on its head in nod to AI

To err is human. To prove you’re not a computer by making a mistake is divine. That’s the premise of… Read More

Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotech on AI-driven blood test to diagnose dozens of diseases at once

The human immune system is incredibly complex and incredibly smart. Your immune system knows when you’re getting sick, sometimes days,… Read More

Chinese tech giants Baidu and Huawei team up for wide-ranging partnership in AI, AR and more

Two Chinese tech giants with offices in the Seattle area are teaming up. Baidu, the Chinese search giant, and smartphone… Read More

Experts explain why machine learning will make some jobs easier – and kill off others

Computer scientists have created artificial-intelligence algorithms that are at least as good as trained humans at recognizing the signs of… Read More

Microsoft’s AI-powered iPhone camera app can now take multi-directional panoramas and turn videos into comic strips

Microsoft is out with a pair of updates to its AI-powered photo app Pix for iOS to let users take… Read More

How the Libratus AI program bested expert poker players in no-limit Texas Hold’em

You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting… Read More

Chinese tech giant Tencent is poised to be a leader in AI, says head of new Seattle research lab

Judging by one of the company’s slogans — “AI in all” — it’s clear that Chinese tech powerhouse Tencent sees giant… Read More

Our solar system has met its match: AI helps scientists find a star’s eighth planet

We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours.… Read More

Sen. Cantwell and other policymakers want to create a federal committee to grapple with the coming AI revolution

Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell and several of her colleagues have introduced a bill that would set up a special advisory… Read More

Microsoft doubles down on its ‘AI for Earth’ initiative, pledging $50M at Paris climate event

Microsoft today pledged $50 million over five years for an initiative to use artificial intelligence to tackle the world’s most… Read More

Take two for ‘Person of the Year’ forecast: Unanimous AI goes with #MeToo campaign

Update: It took more than one try, but Unanimous AI’s crowdsourced hive mind was correct when it picked #MeToo as… Read More

Can AI help prevent suicide? Facebook hopes to better identify posts and get aid to users in need

Facebook already relies on the connections between people to help identify and prevent its users from harming themselves. The social… Read More

How Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the industry agenda at the biggest show in the cloud

For one week, at least, Amazon’s HQ2 is in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services will get the last word on… Read More

That flipping robot sparks new warning from Elon Musk about an AI apocalypse

Boston Dynamics’ video of a humanoid robot executing a perfect backflip sparked a lot of dark humor, and now billionaire… Read More

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Lessons from the Bushmen: How this tech-free society could foreshadow our technological future

Many people nowadays are concerned about the way technology is changing their lives. From worries about artificial intelligence taking jobs,… Read More

Crowdsourced AI platform picks Putin as top prospect for Time’s Person of the Year

The guessing game has already begun for Time’s Person of the Year pick, and according to a Silicon Valley company… Read More

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Report: Amazon Web Services planning AI-friendly version of its data warehouse

The Super Bowl of cloud computing — Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference — is two weeks away, and the company… Read More

Seven minutes of terror: AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a movie

As if the mere phrase “killer robots” weren’t scary enough, AI researchers and policy advocates have put together a video… Read More