Re:Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
by olympus on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:05AM
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The link title is misleading. MS will not have 5k people working on AI. They merged their MS Research and their AI engineering team. It's not like they are going to drop all the other research they are doing to focus solely on AI. The new org is called the AI and Research Group. This is just a reorganization to democratize some of the resources available within MS.
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Re:Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
by tluyben2 on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:10AM
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Hope not... their rise4fun teams are some of the best stuff I can find on the web. Please keep that fundamental research alive.
Re:Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
by kowdermeister on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:49AM
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I don't understand how that's not the same. Ok, they are not hiring 5000 new people, but the end result is the same.
Re:Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
by basch on Friday September 30, 2016 @09:30AM
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there are people who research things besides AI
Re:Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
by quickmouse on Friday September 30, 2016 @09:31AM
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with more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused on the company’s AI product efforts.
Re:Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
by eitally on Friday September 30, 2016 @09:48AM
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Only if you stretch that definition beyond what most people are comfortable doing. The org includes the entire Bing team, for example. This would be like Google saying they have an x,xxx big AI team because they include the whole Search org, or the Apps org because they use ML in their products, too, and so do the Maps Mobile team, etc ad infinitum.
It's great that MS is merging these dispersed orgs, and the actual headline is fine, but calling it a "5,000 person AI division" is disingenuous at best.