Microsoft Gives Productivity Tools More AI Chops
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new artificial intelligence
features and functionality for several of its flagship products and
services, including Office 365, Cortana and Bing, at an event in San
Francisco. Harry Shum, EVP of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and
Research, demonstrated some of the new capabilities
Building on the progress the company has made in integrating AI over
the past year, the new enhancements are designed to help users perform
increasingly complex and complicated tasks.
“AI has come a long way in the ability to find information, but
making sense of that information is the real challenge,” said Kristina
Behr, a partner design and planning program manager with Microsoft’s
Artificial Intelligence and Research group.
One of the advances, machine re...