SEATTLE — Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white. The walls are white, the furniture is white, the counters are white. It might as well have been a set for the space station in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
“The brilliant white was a conscious choice meant to evoke experimental science — think ‘white lab coat,’ ” said Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist and director of the new institute, which the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen launched this year as a sibling of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, his effort to map the human brain.
Image: Oren Etzioni, director of the new Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, was already known for innovative web projects, including an early search engine. Credit Stuart Isett for The New York Times
