Oren Etzioni
Incubator
Dr. Oren Etzioni was Chief Executive Officer at AI2 from its inception until Sept. 30th, 2022. He now serves as an advisor & board member for AI2, and a technical director of the AI2 Incubator. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Washington as of October 2020 and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. His awards include AAAI Fellow and Seattle’s Geek of the Year. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft). He has written over 200 technical papers, as well as commentary on AI for The New York Times, Wired, and Nature. He helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and Open Information Extraction.
Videos
"Computers don't have common sense" with Dr. Oren Etzioni
July 13, 2022 | Oren EtzioniAllen Institute for AI or AI2 is the brainchild of the late Paul Allen, philanthropist, and Microsoft co-founder. Dr. Oren has also been a part of the organisation from its inception. Being a renowned expert in the field of AI and a serial entrepreneur, he has helped pioneer meta-search, online comparison…
Startup Grind: An Interview with Oren Etzioni
February 26, 2019 | Oren EtzioniOren joins Mike Grabham at Startup Grind for an interview about what's happening with AI today and what's coming next.
Learning Common Sense: A Grand Challenge for Academic AI Research
December 6, 2018 | Oren EtzioniDr. Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI and professor of computer science at the University of Washington, addresses one of the Holy Grails of AI: acquiring, representing and utilizing common-sense knowledge, during a distinguished lecture series held at the Office of Naval…Oren Etzioni on Demystifying Artificial Intelligence
February 13, 2018 | Oren EtzioniOren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, gave the keynote address at the winter meeting of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Accelerate Translational Research".
Stevens Institute of Technology: President's Distinguished Lecture with Oren Etzioni
October 4, 2017 | Oren EtzioniDoes Artificial Intelligence (AI) research result in threats to society, or will it yield beneficial technology? The talk will address these issues by describing the projects and perspective at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) in Seattle. AI2's mission is "AI for the Common Good," as exemplified by Semantic…Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge
July 25, 2017 | Oren EtzioniThis video discusses the paper: Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge. The field of Artificial Intelligence has made great strides forward recently, for example AlphaGo's recent victory against the world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go, leading to great optimism about the field…
AI FOR GOOD - The Future of Work
June 13, 2017 | Oren EtzioniAs computer automations is upon us and many jobs will change or be replaced by AIs, AI optimist Oren Etzioni, CEO, Allen Institute for AI, describes the social impacts we must consider as he paints a possible euphonic future state in which jobs will be more creative and fulfilling. About XPRIZE: XPRIZE is an…What AI needs is a dose of realism
January 5, 2017 | Oren Etzioni"I think what's missing in the AI conversation is a dose of realism. We have on the one extreme people like Kurzweil, who are fantastically optimistic but don't really have data to back up their wildly optimistic predictions. On the other hand, we have people who are very afraid, like Nick Bostrom, who's a…
Artificial Intelligence will empower us, not exterminate us
November 19, 2016 | Oren EtzioniArtificial Intelligence advocate Oren Etzioni makes a case for the life-saving benefits of AI used wisely to improve our way of life. Acknowledging growing fears about AI’s potential for abuse of power, he asks us to consider how to responsibly balance our desire for greater intelligence and autonomy with the…AI for the Common Good
May 23, 2016 | Oren EtzioniOren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, shares his vision for deploying AI technologies for the common good.
You Can't Play 20 Questions With Nature and Win
December 12, 2014 | UW CSE ColloquiumDeep learning has catapulted to the front page of the New York Times, formed the core of the so-called “Google brain,” and achieved impressive results in vision, speech recognition, and elsewhere. Yet building intelligent systems requires us to go way beyond the capabilities of deep learning and today’s data…
KDD Keynote: The Battle for the Future of Data Mining
October 7, 2014 | Oren EtzioniDeep learning has catapulted to the front page of the New York Times, formed the core of the so-called “Google brain,” and achieved impressive results in vision, speech recognition, and elsewhere. Yet building intelligent systems requires us to go way beyond the capabilities of deep learning and today’s data…
Open Information Extraction at the University of Washington
March 10, 2013 | Oren EtzioniOren Etzioni discusses Open Information Extraction research at the University of Washington.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Google
February 2, 2006 | Oren EtzioniOren Etzioni discusses the KnowItAll Project at the University of Washington.