Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 4 of 21

Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its… Read More

Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they’ve discovered a way to reduce… Read More

Portrait of Court Corley, chief scientist for AI at PNNL

Pacific Northwest National Lab’s chief scientist for AI finds links between tech and national security

Bringing artificial intelligence to bear on issues relating to nuclear weapons might sound like the stuff of a scary sci-fi… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond

“The biggest surprise is that AI used to be narrow. … And when you went from one application to the… Read More

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI chatbots on its copyrighted work

The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training… Read More

Startup creates AI Santa, using its tech to facilitate believable voice calls for the naughty and nice

If artificial intelligence is indeed coming for people’s jobs, this week would be a good time to start, to help… Read More

Pacific NW National Lab opens AI center to concentrate on science, security, energy

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center… Read More

‘The epicenter of AI’: CNBC’s Cramer is mad about Seattle’s position in new wave of tech

Just a few months after it looked like Seattle was being left out of the national conversation about artificial intelligence… Read More

Microsoft tries to address AI labor concerns with new AFL-CIO pact and ‘neutrality framework’

Microsoft announced a new agreement with the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions, that seeks to address concerns about… Read More

Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and other Microsoft shareholders press company on AI safety

Is Microsoft moving too quickly to capitalize on artificial intelligence at the expense of long-term shareholder value? That was a… Read More

Read AI expands beyond single meeting analysis with scheduling, project management, audio recap

Read AI, a Seattle startup that applies artificial intelligence to online meetings, is expanding beyond its automated recaps of single… Read More

Could AI become conscious? Physicists and neuroscientists search for answers

Will artificial intelligence serve humanity — or will it spawn a new species of conscious digital beings with their own… Read More

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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he… Read More

Is artificial intelligence all that intelligent? AI influencers worry about wishful thinking

What do you get when you put two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people on artificial intelligence together in… Read More

ChatGPT or not ChatGPT? That was the question, briefly, as Microsoft cut employee access to AI tool

A brief restriction on employees’ ability to use ChatGPT inside Microsoft triggered at least one report Thursday that the tech… Read More

Univ. of Washington researchers use AI to help noise-canceling headphones filter certain sounds

If your noise-canceling headphones are canceling sounds you’d actually prefer to hear, researchers at the University of Washington may have… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: ‘Chill work’ as the path to productivity, with Rand Fishkin of SparkToro

“My whole hope for the AI revolution … is that AI should make it so people have to work less,… Read More

AI-powered ‘VC pitch coach’ from Yoodli helps startup founders prepare to face investors

A new feature from Seattle startup Yoodli uses artificial intelligence to help startup founders prepare to pitch their businesses to… Read More

AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68… Read More

Turning a setback into an acquisition: One founder’s AI startup journey

[Editor’s Note: This essay is an update from Kirill Zubovsky, a startup founder with ties to the Seattle region, who… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: Wall Street waits for an AI inflection point

The official launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company’s new artificial intelligence service for large businesses, is still more than… Read More

Writers respond to Marc Andreessen’s AI optimism with their own manifesto: ‘It’s mostly nonsense’

How will “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s paean to economic growth and artificial intelligence, play to a wider… Read More

GeekWire Summit recap: AI gets real in Seattle as historic theater plays host to future-focused event

In a Seattle building full of history and nostalgia, the GeekWire Summit returned Thursday with an agenda focused on rapidly… Read More

As the GeekWire Summit kicks off, see what geeks on the street have to say about AI

At the GeekWire Summit in Seattle today, we’re going to hear from a variety of speakers and panelists about how… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: Using AI to read the room with David Shim (CEO, Read AI)

“The future of work will be less monotonous. AI will take care of it on the back end and free… Read More

Fluid apps, open models, and free markets: Inside the AI-focused Intelligent Applications Summit

Everything in AI is in flux. In fact, a lack of predictability will define this new era. That was one… Read More

Get an AI reality check on ‘The Creator’ — Hollywood’s latest robo-doomsday movie

Over the next 50 years, will humanity become too attached to the artificial-intelligence agents that dictate the course of our… Read More

‘ChatGPT for robots’: Microsoft vets lead new startup that helps create instructions for machines

What if you could ask a robot to warm up your lunch and have it find the microwave by itself?… Read More

Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company… Read More

AI Gets Real at the GeekWire Summit: Speakers revealed for Oct. 19 at former Cinerama theater

We’re less than one month away from the 2023 GeekWire Summit, our signature business and technology conference, and we’d like… Read More