Make Way for Machine Learning: How Seattle Is Becoming a Major Hub for Artificial Intelligence

This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize virtually every sector of the economy --from automobile manufacturing to health care delivery to building maintenance. And the Seattle region's prominent role in cloud computing -- a key driver in AI's widespread use -- means the technology is becoming as prominent here as damp shoes. Indisputably, AI has quietly and inexorably made its way into our daily lives. "We see it in a lot of the things that require speech recognition," says Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Paul Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.