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Microsoft merges Bing, Cortana, and Research to make 5,000-strong AI division [US]

Edit Ars Technica 30 Sep 2016
Microsoft wants to "democratize artificial intelligence" and bring AI to systems that everyone uses ... The company is creating a new group, the AI and Research Group, ... Together, the new AI and Research Group will have some 5,000 engineers and computer scientists ... It makes AI into a fourth engineering group, alongside Windows, Office, and Azure....

Strategic grazing of lucerne to lift lamb numbers (MLA - Meat & Livestock Australia Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Sep 2016
Results from a pen study run at the same time as the grazing trial showed feeding more than maintenance quantities of fresh lucerne to artificially inseminated (AI) ewes increased embryo mortality, reducing the number of ewes carrying twins. 'The optimal nutritional management can be expected to vary in artificial situations, but we recommend producers with AI ewes only graze lucerne at maintenance levels,' Susan said....

How chatbots will help education

Edit Venture Beat 30 Sep 2016
It’s an exciting time for innovations in ed tech, and chatbots are at the forefront ... However, one could also argue the opposite ... “Jill Watson,” as the AI is called, is doing this so effectively that some students don’t even realize that she isn’t human. It should be noted that we are early in the bot revolution, and many AI solutions actually leverage human power while they’re building out their technology....

Cyberpunk 2077 may feature a massive city with seamless multiplayer

Edit Shacknews 30 Sep 2016
The developer's asked for a grant to implement a feature called City Creation, "a complex technology for creating a huge living city, playable in real time, which [the technology] is based on rules, AI, and automation, and supports innovative processes and tools for making top-notch open-world games." ... It's never too soon to drool over rumors and grants, though. ....

Why the biggest names in tech just formed an AI alliance

Edit TechRadar 29 Sep 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI) is equal parts cool and terrifying. Yes, it's great to have machines become smarter so we can become dumber (we kid), but there are lots of unknowns and misunderstandings about what AI is truly all about ... The tech giants are forming a non-profit organization called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, or the Partnership on AI for short ... Why form an AI group?....

Tech Giants For Partnership For Ethical AI (Interquest Group plc)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
Recent advancements in AI have prompted a bit of a mixed reaction amongst key figures in the field of science and tech ... However, great minds such as Stephen Hawking have warned that AI could spell the end of humanity itself. We're at a crossroads, but Facebook, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon have come together to lay out a roadmap for an ethical AI future ... AI,machine learning,ethics in tech ... WOULD YOU WATCH A MOVIE MADE BY AN AI?....

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft team up to push artificial intelligence research

Edit BGR 29 Sep 2016
The partnership among these five companies will discuss advancements and conduct research in AI and also how to best use machine learning. Artificial intelligence (AI) research will get a major boost five top-notch tech companies Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft have joined hands to announce a historic partnership on AI and machine learning ... “The power of AI is in the enterprise sector....

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft on one AI platform

Edit The Hindu 29 Sep 2016
In a major boost to artificial intelligence (AI) research, five top-notch tech companies — Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft — have joined hands to announce a historic partnership on AI and machine learning ... “We want to involve people impacted by AI as well,” ... “The power of AI is in the enterprise sector....

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft form new AI alliance

Edit Mashable 29 Sep 2016
In conversation it will actually go by the more manageable "Partnership on AI." ... The objective, according to Thursday's announcement, is "to address opportunities and challenges with AI technologies to benefit people and society.". Partnership AI will actually conduct open-source research, investigating AI areas such as ethics and human and AI system collaboration....

Microsoft expands artificial intelligence (AI) efforts with creation of new Microsoft AI and Research Group (Microsoft Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
announced on Thursday it has formed the Microsoft AI and Research Group, bringing together Microsoft's world-class research organization with more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused on the company's AI product efforts ... Today's announcement builds on the company's deep focus on AI and will accelerate the delivery of new capabilities to customers across agents, apps, services and infrastructure....

Facebook, Google and Other Tech Giants Join Forces To Advance AI

Edit Newsfactor 29 Sep 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the world for the better, according to Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google-owned DeepMind, but it needs to be developed in a "thoughtful, positive and ethical way." ... A 'Vital Voice' in Advancing AI ... Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era," responded to news of the AI partnership with the question....

Tech Giants Form Artificial Intelligence Supergroup, But Not Everyone's In

Edit IFL Science 29 Sep 2016
Whether it's fears of robots replacing all our jobs or a full-blown AI uprising à la The Matrix, the new realm of AI can seem a scary one ... This new collaboration seeks to address those fears, all while making AI the best it can be, both technically and socially ... “We’re in a golden age of Machine Learning and AI ... Apple and OpenAI, Elon Musk’s venture into AI research....

Tech Giants: AI Is Awesome, Totally Not Going to Kill You

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Sep 2016
But despite fears of self-aware robots enslaving the human race, work in AI continues apace. Google's DeepMind is using AI to reduce power consumption, car makers like Ford and Toyota are investing in AI for self-driving cars, and the digital personal assistants on your phone grow more powerful by the day....
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