geeteam Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Microsoft's head of research gave a lengthy interview for Bloomberg, hinting that the largest piece of the R&D budget is now going to artificial intelligence, and, to be precise, virtual assistants that can answer 'Why' questions.That's apparently the hard thing to master, instead of just digging up info to answer a line of leading questions. For example, Microsoft has a smart elevator in store, which can predict which floor are you trying to get to before you've pushed the button, based on your individual habits and conversations with colleagues like lunch plans. Taking you there, for instance, would be an answer to the question "Why would this person want to go to this floor right now?" It might sound scary, but the research chief claims safeguards are built in, preventing the AI project from connecting individual data with said habits. We hope some of this predictive artificial intelligence work will find its way into Microsoft's upcoming virtual assistant Cortana for Windows Phone, though we aren't sure if mobile chipsets and storage will be able to handle the data load to such an extent. Oh, well, give us at least the simultaneous translation service, Microsoft, and we'll call it even. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEEL Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Great, Thanx :rolleyes: :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Given that they couldn't work out why Windows 8 was such a disaster despite gazillions of people telling them, I wonder why they're wasting their time on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeteam Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 LOL! its a different division pal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Microsoft did tis before, that fit looking mixed race woman.Then it stopped.So we went from the Wizard, to a fit woman I wanted to marry to some steel looking d00d that came from the cast of the Village People. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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