Articles about machine learning – Page 3 of 6

Teaching the ghost in the machine: How cloud tech experts are managing the rise of AI

When it comes to the breakthroughs that brilliant scientists and engineers are working on in 2018, artificial intelligence technology somehow… Read More

Horse-monitoring startup Magic AI acquires Victory Parade to bolster its machine learning stable

Magic AI, the startup using artificial intelligence to better understand and care for horses, is adding more talent to its… Read More

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

Apple’s Carlos Guestrin cautions AI leaders to think very carefully about how they use their data

The rise of machine learning has been one of the most exciting developments in modern technology, but according to Carlos… Read More

Microsoft to acquire machine learning startup Bonsai, fueling AI efforts

Microsoft is adding more firepower to its artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant has agreed to acquire Bonsai, a San… Read More

Google Translate gets smarter offline translation features that account for context

Google is beefing up Google Translate with more accurate offline translations in 59 languages. The new feature, offline Neural Machine… Read More

Food safety monitoring tech startup wins first place at Madrona machine learning hackathon

Food safety is a pressing issue. The latest example came last month when an elusive strain of E. coli linked… Read More

Facebook announces major update to the PyTorch AI framework that paves the way for production use

Facebook wants to make sure the open-source PyTorch machine-learning framework supports the needs of developers who want to use its… Read More

A smarter smartphone? Teen entrepreneur pictures new app SmartLens as a ‘Shazam for visual world’

Michael Royzen is at it again. The 18-year-old Seattle software developer and entrepreneur has created another company and today released… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment unfolded

Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing… Read More

DimensionalMechanics releases second-generation of its AI product, announces new funding

Some of the biggest and most powerful companies in technology are racing each other to make machine learning easier to… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds new features to SageMaker and makes its AI-powered transcription services generally available

Developers using Amazon SageMaker to build machine-learning applications will now be able to take advantage of new computing resources and… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals more details on the thinking behind SageMaker, its machine-learning service for cloud developers

Machine-learning services promise to be one of the most competitive areas for cloud computing vendors over the next few years.… Read More

Microsoft will open up AI and machine learning advances to third party developers in next major Windows 10 update

Artificial intelligence has become a primary area of focus at Microsoft, and that will be reflected in the next major… Read More

Microsoft and UPMC unveil virtual AI assistant that listens in and takes notes on doctor’s visits

Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth… Read More

Algorithmia launches blockchain-based protocol for machine-learning algorithm shoppers

Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia… Read More

Seattle startup vet raises cash for stealthy AstrumU, looks to bring efficiency to higher education with machine learning

Adam Wray sees plenty of inefficiency in the $600 billion higher education arena. And the Seattle entrepreneur — who previously… Read More

Meet the TrashBot: CleanRobotics is using machine learning to keep recycling from going to waste

PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting… Read More

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

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

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

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

Hot or not: LinkedIn data shows which jobs and skills are on the rise and which are fading

Machine learning is in; Flash is out. Data scientists are in great demand, specialized developers, not so much. These are… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Comet is building a GitHub-like management system for machine learning

Gideon Mendels has spent the past three years in machine learning research, studying at Columbia University, building hate speech detection… Read More

At Facebook hackathon, engineers combine Seattle data with machine learning to solve civic issues

Last week, Facebook held a civic hackathon, inviting in-house engineers as well as representatives from other tech companies to combine… Read More

Amazon and Microsoft unveil ‘Gluon’ neural network technology, teaming up on machine learning

Microsoft and Amazon, which surprised the tech world with a partnership between their Cortana and Alexa virtual assistants, are back… Read More

A beloved horse dies in the night, and a startup is born bringing AI and machine learning to animals

Alexa Anthony has been around horses for much of her life. She grew up show jumping and became an NCAA… Read More

Element Data acquires Philadelphia startup’s ’emotional analytics platform’

Fast-growing Element Data has acquired the technology assets and patent of BehaviorMatrix, a Philadelphia startup that specializes in understanding the… Read More

Trying to fill a job in AI? Stop using the term AI, advises listings language experts Textio

Leave it to the experts in machine learning to figure out that “machine learning” has lost its oomph. When it… Read More

Podcast

What these teen tech entrepreneurs think about Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AI, the cloud and more

Michael Royzen and Atul Ajoy have several things in common, besides being high-school students in the Seattle region. They’re both… Read More