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Your Phone Knows You Too Well. Tom Gruber Knows Why.

Those algorithms learn by doing, so the more searches they do, the smarter they get.

Monica Enand Built a Successful Artificial Intelligence Company. Now She’s Worried About AI Aiding Bigotry.

Enand insists she has no interest in running for governor.

The Father of Siri Has Grown Wary of the Artificial Intelligence He Helped Create

Tom Gruber speaks at TechFestNW in Portland this April.

Outback Steakhouse Locations in Oregon Are Being Used to Test New Employee Surveillance Technology

Outback Steakhouse’s Portland location is testing Presto Vision, an AI computer vision tool designed to analyze interactions between customers and service staff.

Watch: Robot Overlord Takeover Isn’t Inevitable

G. Pascal Zachary, former WW and current Wall Street Journal reporter, says everyone needs to calm down: Robots aren’t going to take over the world.

Artificial Intelligence Comes With a lot of Tricky Ethical Questions. Gadi Singer Examines the Complexities at TechfestNW.

“This is a time to have a dialog out there” about AI, Singer says. “I think [ethical] debates are necessary.”

Moovel CEO: The Solution to Portland’s Traffic Problem Isn’t More Highway Lanes, It’s Carpooling Via Smartphone

Last week, Daimler and BMW made an announcement with potentially big implications for Portland. The auto companies will be merging car2go and ReachNow car share services.

A Portland Smart Transit Expert Is Excited About Artificial Intelligence Taking the Wheel of Your Car. He’s Also a Little Worried.

Which technology goes almost unnoticed today but will eventually transform our lives? Artificial intelligence, says Nat Parker, the Portland CEO of moovel North America, who before that was cofounder and CEO of GlobeSherpa.

Futurist Jerry Kaplan Talks About Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of Machines Taking Over—and What You Should Actually Be Afraid Of

“Computers by their nature will make mistakes so colossal that no human would commit them or likely be capable of committing them.”

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