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.
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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.