Microsoft Replacing 50 Journalists With AI
The future is now? Well, it could be by the end of June. For there is talk that Microsoft is set to replace dozens of journalists with good old …
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Sony To Use Azure AI System On Its Smart Camera Sensors
Don’t you just love it when rivals sit together on a table? Microsoft and Sony have announced a new partnership focused on the Azure AI system that will see …
Pope Helping Microsoft Create A Doctrine For Ethical AI
The Pope has joined forces with two of the leading technology giants in the AI space, Microsoft and IBM, in helping to create a doctrine for ethical AI and …
Microsoft Signs Up 12 UK Firms For AI For Good
12 UK companies have joined Microsoft’s AI for Good accelerator program. These firms will now gain access to a whole array of Microsoft technology, resources, and expertise. Which, they …
Cortana Going Away On Android, iOS
Microsoft has confirmed what we always suspected. That it is taking away Cortana functionality on Android and iOS early next year, at least in certain markets. That is to …
Microsoft Sends Graphcore AI Accelerator Chips To Azure
Microsoft has taken another big step in the race to catch rivals Amazon and Google in the AI space. It has sent Graphcore AI accelerator chips to the Azure …
Novartis To Use Microsoft AI For Drug Development
Novartis, the Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, has teamed up with Microsoft to overcome drug development hurdles. Microsoft AI technology will be put to great use here. Basically, data scientists …
Microsoft Envisions AI Boom Over The Next 5 Years
AI for the win! There is an AI boom on the horizon, and the next decade truly could be the year of disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, …
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion On AI That Mimics The Brain
As Winnie the Pooh would say, think, think, think! Microsoft has sunk a titanic $1 billion in an artificial intelligence lab that is working on technology that can mimic …
Microsoft Highlights Its AI Efforts For Helping Endangered Species
AI truly is an odd animal. Its massive potential can often times be difficult to showcase. But Microsoft is making the effort to highlights the way its artificial intelligence …
IBM Watson Comes To Microsoft Azure
Interesting times we live in! In a move acknowledging the machine learning lead of cloud rivals, IBM has made its Watson service available across Azure, AWS and Google clouds. …
Microsoft Introduces Healthcare Bot Service
Chatbots for the win! Microsoft is making some big moves in health. The company has officially launched its healthcare bot service in the Azure Marketplace. Redmond is not new …
Microsoft Fears That Flawed AI Could Harm Its Image
In a bid to prepare them for the worst, Microsoft has warned investors that its AI offerings could damage the company’s reputation and hurt its image. This, the Seattle-based …
Microsoft CTO Talks AI, Mixed Reality Plans
Kevin Scott became Microsoft CTO two years ago, after spending six years directing software engineering at LinkedIn. And one of his main duties now is to identify technologies to …
37% Of Organizations Now Use AI In Some Form
Gartner is here with its 2019 CIO Survey, which suggests that an inspiring 37% of the organizations that it quizzed are now employing artificial intelligence (AI) in one form …
Cortana Drops Out Of The Smart Assistant Race
Fall from grace? Microsoft, in an admission, that it no longer sees Cortana as a competitor to Alexa or Google Assistant, is now transitioning the service into an app …
Microsoft Reveals AI For Earth Innovation Grant Winners
Changemakers. Microsoft revealed its AI for Earth program last year, as an initiative committed towards harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to solving some of our biggest environmental challenges. …
CTO Artificial Intelligence Departs Microsoft
What trickery is this! Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer of AI has left the company to join a New York City based artificial intelligence focused real-estate brokerage firm called Compass. …
Microsoft Sounds Alarm Over Facial Recognition
Microsoft president Brad Smith has once again called for new regulation to govern the facial recognition technology in order to avoid bias, discrimination and misuse. He was speaking at …
Microsoft Will Continue To Provide AI Weapons To The US Military
Saying it straight. Microsoft president and chief lawyer Brad Smith has promised that it will not shy away from providing the US military with its best technology. Including AI. …
ONNX Goes Open Source On Windows Machine Learning
The open source drive continues for Microsoft, as the company has announced that it is open sourcing the ONNX runtime engine that lies at the heart of its Windows …
Azure Machine Learning Now Generally Available
The Microsoft Connect(); 2018 event kicked off today, and Redmond got down to business right away announcing that the Azure Machine Learning service has reached general availability. A cloud …
Present Pal Wins AI For Accessibility Grant From Microsoft
Microsoft has gifted Glasgow based Present Pal an AI for Accessibility grant to help further their efforts in ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to communicate effectively in …
New AI Based Features Come To Skype, PowerPoint
Microsoft continues to impress with AI. The company has expanded its artificial intelligence work to two of its most popular products, Skype and PowerPoint. And that too, in the …
Intent Lab To Blend AI Into Bing For Marketing
Smarter marketing with AI? Not bad, not bad at all. Microsoft and Intent Lab have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence capabilities to Bing search engine and help redefine …
EdCast Floats AI Powered Knowledge Cloud For Office 365
EdCast, a leading digital learning and upskilling platform that delivers personalized knowledge, has announced that it now provides its solutions for users of Microsoft Office 365. They now have …
Microsoft Uses AI To Generate Caricatures From Photos
Well, that’s one use of AI I can get behind! A group of researchers at Microsoft have unveiled their artificial intelligence powered application that does some unique little artistic …
H2O.ai Launches Full Suite On Azure Marketplace
Another happy landing! H2O.ai, a leader in open source AI solutions, recently launched its full suite of AI driven platforms on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The company shared the …
M*Modal In For AI Powered Radiology On Microsoft Azure
AI to the extreme? M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation solutions, today announced the availability of a cloud-based version of its proven radiology reporting solution. The company unveiled …
Microsoft, Calcalist To Hold A Big Data Startup Contest
Contest in town? Microsoft and Calcalist announced on Thursday plans to a second Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Startup Competition. Final round of the competition is set to take …