Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 20 of 21

Conversational AI developer Next IT raises new funding as chatbots take off

The world of chatbots is growing quickly. Microsoft and Facebook both have frameworks to let third parties build bots into their chat services.… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon’s Alexa returns as our special guest

One of the most popular guests ever to appear on our weekly GeekWire radio show is Amazon’s Alexa, the voice-enabled virtual assistant… Read More

Report: Amazon acquired the artificial intelligence image analysis startup Orbeus

Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions are growing, with rumors surfacing today that it purchased an AI startup focusing on image processing. Amazon… Read More

Why is AI female? How our ideas about sex and service influence the personalities we give machines

Consider the artificially intelligent voices you hear on a regular basis. Are any of them men? Whether it’s Apple’s Siri,… Read More

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

Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but we’re already experiencing it in real ways in our lives, whether… Read More

Robots for sale? Price drop in the android market could open new frontiers for AI

Artificial intelligence and robots are hot topics right now, but will we ever get to the stage we saw 50… Read More

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AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’

Imagine a future where life’s most boring or dangerous tasks are handled by machines. Time otherwise spent commuting, scheduling appointments, sifting… Read More

Experts work to turn artificial intelligence into a friendly face – but it doesn’t always succeed

Can artificially intelligent robots be our friends? Our helpmates? Our companions? Roboticists and AI researchers are trying to make it… Read More

Microsoft’s millennial chatbot Tay.ai pulled offline after Internet teaches her racism

Well, that escalated quickly. Less than 24 hours after first talking with the public, Microsoft’s millennial-minded chatbot Tay was pulled offline amid… Read More

Meet ‘Tay’: Microsoft debuts millennial-minded AI chatbot to understand how the kids talk

If you’re “an old,” understanding “teenz” can be as hard as understanding your cat. But Microsoft is trying to change that with… Read More

Geek trash talk: Facebook AI chief disses Google’s AlphaGo victory over Lee Sedol

As Google’s DeepMind team bathed in the accolades that came with building an artificial intelligence machine that decisively kicked the… Read More

Man vs. Machine: Google’s AlphaGo leaves little doubt as to better Go player in tournament’s final match

Maybe Lee Sedol can take comfort in the fact that even as machines outperform humans in a growing number of tasks, they… Read More

Most Americans expect robots to take over human work, but few think their jobs are in jeopardy

Humanity is sitting on the cusp of an artificial intelligence boom, as the technology transitions from rare and experimental to… Read More

Human outsmarts AI: AlphaGo program loses a game to Go champion Lee Sedol

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program may have won the $1 million five-game Go match with three straight wins, but Go… Read More

AlphaGo AI program wins $1 million prize in Go showdown with champion Lee Sedol

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program will take home the $1 million prize after winning the first three games in its… Read More

Allen Institute joins in IARPA’s massive MICrONS project to create a tiny bit of virtual brain tissue

Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is in on a multimillion-dollar campaign to trace the connections between the neurons in a… Read More

AlphaGo AI program gets stronger, beats champion Lee Sedol again in second game of Go showdown

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… Read More

Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program won the first of five Go games in a milestone million-dollar match against South… Read More

Seattle Go players plan watch parties for Google’s man-vs.-machine showdown

This month’s human-vs.-machine Go match between South Korean legend Lee Sedol and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program is a teachable… Read More

IBM Watson AI XPRIZE offers $5M for projects that link humans and computers – but who’ll sign up?

The latest multimillion-dollar tech challenge – known as the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE – will be aimed at encouraging collaboration… Read More

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol: Odds are shifting in $1 million man-vs.-machine Go match

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… Read More

AI prophets say robots could spark unemployment – and a revolution

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The robot revolution may put half of us humans out of a job by 2045 – and if… Read More

Watch Google’s AI navigate a 3D maze like a human would

The key to unlocking the power of artificial intelligence is teaching machines to think like humans. Now Google is one step… Read More

Fetch! Microsoft’s latest artificial-intelligence trick is an app to ID dog breeds

Microsoft has used artificial intelligence to release apps that can determine how old people are, whether two people are twins,… Read More

AI software masters the game of Go, takes aim at the world’s top player

Mark another milestone in the rise of the machines: An artificial intelligence program pioneered by Google DeepMind has learned how… Read More

Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence pioneer, dies of brain hemorrhage at 88

Marvin Minsky, the computer scientist who helped blaze the trail for virtual smartphone assistants and other manifestations of artificial intelligence, died of… Read More

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

A new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup called KITT.AI, incubated inside Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), has landed… Read More

Testing Amy: What it’s like to have appointments scheduled by an AI assistant

I met Amy several months ago when a colleague invited me to a meeting. My first thought was jealousy over… Read More

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from taking over the world

While flying cars and (real) hoverboards may not be coming any time soon, there’s a lot of effort and money… Read More

Bayesian boost for A.I.: Researchers find a quicker way to teach a computer

Researchers say they’ve developed an algorithm that can teach a new concept to a computer using just one example, rather… Read More