The late, great Seattle newspaper columnist Emmett Watson died more than 20 years ago. A lot has happened since then in his beloved burg. What would he say about Seattle… Read More
Amazon added a new artificial intelligence policy to its content guidelines for authors who distribute their work through its Kindle Direct Publishing platform, reacting to a wave of new books… Read More
ORLAND, Calif. — As a new school year begins, teachers across the country are grappling with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, recognizing the potential of ChatGPT and other AI… Read More
ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies are wowing — and sometimes alarming — users with their human-like abilities to carry on conversations and perform tasks. But they’re also sparking concern… Read More
Can I use this for homework? What’s the point of school if this can do all these things? That was the response from Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi‘s teenage son after… Read More
Why can’t Alexa users have sophisticated, nuanced voice interactions with Amazon’s assistant, similar to text-based conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT? That was one of my questions for Rohit Prasad, the senior… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped down from the Expedia Group board effective June 1, after helping the company get a jump on the new era of generative AI toward the… Read More
The nonprofit sector — which encompasses some 1.6 million organizations in the U.S. alone — has joined the ChatGPT and AI digital frenzy. The philanthropic ventures are eager to use… Read More
AI is the hottest topic in tech. Corporate giants and startups are racing to embed generative AI capabilities into their products and services. Regulators are trying to set rules governing… Read More
When he took the stage last week at the GeekWire Awards as the human embodiment of ChatGPT, accomplished singer Robert “The Drunken Tenor” McPherson had combined his own songwriting intelligence… Read More
Microsoft says Bing will become the default search engine for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, giving the popular generative AI chatbot “timelier and more up-to-date answers with access from the web,” including citations.… Read More
Likewise, the Bellevue, Wash.-based entertainment discovery platform, is tapping into ChatGPT to leverage AI and find more information and recommendations for its users across the vast landscape of television shows,… Read More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Has AI found its VisiCalc? That’s what I’m wondering after spending Wednesday at Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Have we… Read More
Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton has been through several technology evolutions. And he thinks another one may be upon us now. “The arrival of conversational generative artificial intelligence may be… Read More
As new forms of generative AI spread across the tech world, it’s becoming tough for Alexa users to accept rudimentary responses from Amazon’s voice assistant, compared with sophisticated text-based conversations… Read More
Can a chatbot help Pentagon planners find the satellite data they need to understand what’s happening in a global hotspot? Microsoft Azure Space recently showed the U.S. military how an… Read More
Editor’s note: Four months after the release of its ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI unveiled its latest artificial intelligence technology, GPT-4, on Tuesday. Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for… Read More
It turns out we’re not the only ones getting into fact-checking fights with Bing Chat, Microsoft’s much-vaunted AI chatbot. Last week, GeekWire’s Todd Bishop recounted an argument with the ChatGPT-based… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a Seattle-based organization at the forefront of natural language processing research.… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing search engine and Edge web browser that take advantage of next-generation OpenAI artificial intelligence models in a move that promises to… Read More
Microsoft says it plans to integrate OpenAI technologies throughout its product lineup, but one entrepreneur has already put ChatGPT into Microsoft Word, and he’s eyeing additional Microsoft Office products next.… Read More
The sudden rise of ChatGPT — the AI-powered chatbot released by OpenAI last fall — has educators across the country rethinking how they teach and assess student work. The University of… Read More
Seattle Public Schools is joining a growing number of school districts banning ChatGPT, the natural language chatbot from OpenAI that has sparked widespread attention in recent weeks. ChatGPT has garnered… Read More
A potential $10 billion investment by Microsoft in OpenAI would strengthen the tech giant’s partnership with the ChatGPT maker as it eyes new integrations that leverage breakthroughs from the AI… Read More
What would a combination of OpenAI’s ChatGPT natural language chatbot with Microsoft’s Bing search engine look like? This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss the potentially surprising possibilities with… Read More
Startup entrepreneur and investor Ben Gilbert, co-founder and managing director of Pioneer Square Labs and PSL Ventures, is always watching for the next big tech wave. He concedes that there have been… Read More
“Extremely impressive.” “Incredibly rich.” “Super exciting.” That’s how tech leaders are describing ChatGPT, the new conversational chatbot model released last week by OpenAI. The bot builds on existing GPT natural… Read More
