{"id":94198,"date":"2019-07-28T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ai-event-in-seattle-brings-together-japanese-companies-and-u-s-innovators"},"modified":"2019-07-28T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:43:45","slug":"ai-event-in-seattle-brings-together-japanese-companies-and-u-s-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ai-event-in-seattle-brings-together-japanese-companies-and-u-s-innovators","title":{"rendered":"AI event in Seattle brings together Japanese companies and U.S. innovators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-event-in-seattle-brings-together-japanese-companies-and-u-s-innovators2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seventy-five people filed into a Washington State Convention Center meeting room Wednesday to hear about the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. In a pitching session reminiscent of a speed-dating event, about 10 Northwest startups hurriedly shared their accomplishments and aspirations with Japanese investors eager to stoke business relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Master of ceremonies Tom Sato, co-founder of Kirkland-based investing firm Innovation Finders Capital, lightened the mood by cracking jokes as he translated the English-speaking founders\u2019 business plans into Japanese, cautioning the attendees that he faced a challenge: \u201cI have to understand what the hell they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The A.I. Age |<\/strong> This 12-month series of stories explores the social and economic questions arising from the fast-spreading uses of artificial intelligence. The series is funded with the help of the <a id=\"LPlnk622391\" href=\"https:\/\/aiethicsinitiative.org\/\">Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative<\/a>. Seattle Times editors and reporters operate independently of our funders and maintain editorial control over the coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five people filed into a Washington State Convention Center meeting room Wednesday to hear about the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. In a pitching session reminiscent of a speed-dating event, about 10 Northwest startups hurriedly shared their accomplishments and aspirations with Japanese investors eager to stoke business relationships. Master of ceremonies Tom Sato, co-founder of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,30,1759,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-ethics","category-governance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}