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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by Angostura on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:41AM (#12613109)
Well, companies are certainly spending a lot of money on something that they are branding AI - I might wait and see how much of it is on real AI - what ever that is.
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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by unoti on Friday September 30, 2016 @05:07PM (#12615301)
While most people in the industry were busy debating the usefulness and definition of "cloud", Amazon and others were busy building it. To me this is similar to that situation. There is real progress happening with practical benefit in AI, machine learning, deep learning, and Microsoft is committed to being at the forefront. Personally I'm not waiting. I'm teaching myself data modeling and other techniques that'll let me be part of the coming revolution.
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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by seanmcdirmid on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:47AM (#12613152)
They don't have to achieve "real AI"; they only need to come up with things that do more work for us to win.

Real AI is a fool's goal. Once we achieve that, we will simply be obsolete, I'm in no hurry to get there.

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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by pamelabuck on Friday September 30, 2016 @01:09PM (#12613716)
haha yeah in this case, we want to shoot for the moon but definitely want to hit the tree
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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by partycoder on Friday September 30, 2016 @05:49PM (#12615474)
Prefer the terms "strong AI" or Artificial General Intelligence.
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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by coldtea on Friday September 30, 2016 @03:52PM (#12614840)
>They don't have to achieve "real AI"; they only need to come up with things that do more work for us to win.

Yeah, can't wait for the new Clippy.

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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by illumin8 on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:55PM (#12615234)
Great point. It seems to me that people are categorizing anything that involves analytics as AI now:

"I asked Cortana to query our clickstream data and she said that men over the age of 50 like to click on Viagra ads."

This is not AI. Although there is some real research going on, it seems that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and using AI as a buzzword.

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