A robot that utilizes Microsoft AI is being used to clean up beaches. It uses machine learning to identify cigarette butts in the sand and then picks up the waste.
The $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance by Microsoft cleared a major hurdle earlier this month. There are still regulatory bodies to go through, but the deal is one step closer to being approved.
A recent patent from Microsoft describes technology to create chatbots of specific people. The tech could be used to create chatbots of celebrities, fictional characters, and dead people.
PepsiCo worked with Microsoft to use AI to improve its production line for Cheetos. The setup uses Microsoft Project Bonsai to detect Cheetos and make adjustments during the production process.
There's something enchanting about photography. Something beautiful about being able to tell rich, imaginative stories with nothing but a camera. Something incredible about making a living from behind the lens.
Microsoft announced that it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 model to advance artificial intelligence. The technology could be used for a wide variety of things, including converting languages and summarizing code.
Microsoft Garage has a new app in preview that allows you to submit images to help AI developers. By entering images, you're entered to win prizes, including Amazon gift cards.
Microsoft and Land O'Lakes announced a partnership to overcome issues facing the agricultural industry. AI, the cloud, and technologies already in use will come together to improve efficiency and provide deep data insights.
Just one month after letting go several contractors that worked on MSN, the news platform is reportedly laying off more humans in favor of AI. The new layoffs reportedly include some senior leaders of the Microsoft News editorial team.
Microsoft recently started using AI journalists to curate news instead of human journalists. The AI journalists confused two singers from the singing group Little Mix that are both multiracial. Singer Jade Thirlwall posted her frustration with MSN on Instagram.
Microsoft today announced a new addition to its AI for Good program. Called AI for Health, the initiative will see Microsoft invest $40 million over the next five years to improve health outcomes for people around the world.
Microsoft is gradually shifting Cortana's role to be decidedly more productivity focused, and a newly unearthed patent imagines how that will look for email. In the patent, Microsoft lays out a method for a digital assistant to intelligently parse your emails and summarize them for audio consumption on the go.
Microsoft for Startups and NVIDIA Inception have announced a new plan to work together to back AI startups.
Microsoft's current AI and Research chief Harry Shum is stepping down. Taking is spot is current Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who has headed up projects exploring mixed reality and deep learning tech.
Former Siri Vice President Bill Stasior has found a new role with Microsoft. Stasior previously served on Apple’s Siri team for nearly seven years before departing the company back in January.
Microsoft invested $1 billion and has formed a new partnership with OpenAI to create artificial general intelligence. The partnership will see OpenAI migrate to Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft and AT&T announced a new partnership today through which the two will work together on the cloud, AI, and 5G solutions. While Microsoft provides access to Azure and Microsoft 365 for AT&T, the latter will use its 5G network to enable new edge-computing scenarios with Microsoft.
Microsoft today launched AI for Cultural Heritage, a new pillar of its larger AI for Good program. The latest initiative focuses on preserving important pieces of cultures around the world, such as endangered languages and cultural artifacts.
At a recent MIT Technology Review event, Harry Shum, Microsoft's vice president of AI research group, warned of the coming ethical dilemmas posed by AI as it becomes more creative.
Companies, governments, policymakers and citizens have a lot of work to do to ensure AI doesn't reflect the worst of humanity.