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Oren Etzioni

TrueMedia.org plans to shutter and open-source its AI deepfake detector; Etzioni hints at new startup

TrueMedia.org, the Seattle-based nonprofit that offered AI tools to identify and combat deepfakes in the lead-up to the 2024 elections,… Read More

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How to track what’s true as the AI war over disinformation in politics builds to a climax

Artificial intelligence is fueling an arms race between the purveyors of disinformation and those who are fighting it in this… Read More

AI nonprofit TrueMedia gets real with release of free deepfake detection tool ahead of elections

TrueMedia, the Seattle-based nonpartisan nonprofit that is using AI to detect deepfakes and combat disinformation, made its technology available to… Read More

AI tools help journalists assess authenticity of images in immediate aftermath of Trump shooting

Journalists used artificial intelligence to check the authenticity of images from the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in… Read More

Can you spot deepfakes? New quiz tests how well people can identify manipulated images and videos

A new quiz from Seattle-based AI nonprofit TrueMedia tests how well people can spot deepfake images, videos and audio clips,… Read More

As elections loom, TrueMedia.org releases AI deepfake detector to identify fake content

Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia.org released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Apple Vision Pro, a developer’s take; Detecting and defusing AI deepfakes

First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial… Read More

New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia, led by Oren Etzioni, is making a political deepfake detector

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio,… Read More

Podcast

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

Google’s ‘Gemini’ bridges the AI divide, but artificial general intelligence remains elusive

In the past year, generative AI has taken the world by storm. The pace of advancement has been little short… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: What this veteran AI leader discussed with President Biden in a private meeting

“So we were ushered into a room and the president came in. He was engaged, he was witty…he was asking… Read More

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The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area

Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a… Read More

Why big data is not a priority anymore, and other key AI trends to watch

Artificial Intelligence models that generate entirely new content are creating a world of opportunities for entrepreneurs. And engineers are learning… Read More

Oren Etzioni stepping down as CEO of Allen Institute for AI after nine years at research hub

Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI, is stepping down from the artificial intelligence research organization… Read More

Inside the AI2 Incubator: Microsoft co-founder’s unfinished legacy fuels quest for new AI startups

As a key figure in the PC revolution, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen understood the power of new technologies to… Read More

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni to chair UiPath’s new AI advisory board

UiPath, a publicly traded “robotic automation process” company, announced that Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) CEO Oren Etzioni will… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

— DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly… Read More

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

An “incredibly dynamic year of change,” a “new hope,” and a “gangbusters” year in which the tech sector will come… Read More

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AI vs. Coronavirus: How artificial intelligence is now helping in the fight against COVID-19

Artificial intelligence often raises concerns about privacy, bias and trickery in areas such as facial recognition and deep fake videos.… Read More

Study tracks China’s ‘startling’ challenge to America in artificial intelligence research

China wants to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 — but a new analysis by Seattle’s Allen… Read More

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AI2’s Oren Etzioni to entrepreneurs: It’s not too late to ride the machine-learning wave

It may seem as if everyone’s already on the bandwagon for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with players ranging from… Read More

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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

Geek of the Week: UW student Christine Betts wins first Allen Institute for AI engineering scholarship

Christine Betts sometimes feels overwhelmed because she “only started programming in college” but a glance at her long list of… 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

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

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

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

University of Washington will host first-ever White House workshop on artificial intelligence

Between the University of Washington, a thriving tech community, and strong research institutions, like the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence… 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

Oren Etzioni

Who’s hot in academia? Semantic Scholar dives more deeply into the data

Baseball players are judged by their batting averages, RBIs, ERAs and other statistics voluminous enough to fill a scorecard. But… Read More

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