Read the pitch deck these ex-DeepMind scientists used to raise $5 million for an AI 'algorithm factory'

Former DeepMind scientists raise $5 million for Hiverge, a startup developing AI to improve code.
GeekWire

Algorithmia raises $2.4M from Madrona and others to create marketplace for algorithms

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Blair Hanley Frank on Aug 18, 2014 ...
Marketplace

The challenges around creating an “ethical algorithm”

A recent study in the journal Science found that an algorithm widely used in hospitals was disproportionately assigning African American patients the same amount of health risk as white patients even ...
Government Technology

Creating Computer Algorithms to Sift Through Data, Identify Asteroids on a Collision Course with Earth

(TNS) -- Scientists at the University of Washington are writing computer algorithms that could one day save the world — and that’s no exaggeration. Working away in the university’s quiet ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

How algorithms can create inequality in health care, and how to fix it

Machine-learning algorithms and artificial intelligence software help organizations analyze large amounts of data to improve decision-making, and these tools are increasingly used in hospitals to ...
Wired

The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam

Algorithms play a growing role in our lives, even as their flaws are becoming more apparent: A Michigan man wrongly accused of fraud had to file for bankruptcy; automated screening tools ...