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Look Out, IBM: Microsoft Corporation Is Preparing for an AI Battle

Feb 2, 2016 at 8:00AM

What's at stake

Within six years industry pundits expect the global AI market will reach $40 billion.

Microsoft's $40 billion buyback would be biggest of last decade

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/22/microsofts-40-billion-buyback-would-be-biggest-of-last-decade.html

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/02/look-out-ibm-microsoft-corporation-is-preparing-fo.aspx

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella slams Google's game-playing artificial brain: 'We are not pursuing AI to beat humans at games'

Sep. 26, 2016, 6:26 PM

As Nadella indicates here, Microsoft has made significant investments in artificial intelligence, which manifests itself in ways large and small. Nadella revealed Monday that Cortana, the digital personal assistant that comes with Windows 10, has 133 million monthly users.

Google would probably disagree with Microsoft's characterization of its cloud: The same DeepMind organization that won at Go is also partnering with the United Kingdom's National Health Service to help patients track their health issues. But Nadella is right that Microsoft has more inroads with developers, potentially putting the company at the center of an AI revolution.

The Partnership of the Future

The beauty of machines and humans working in tandem gets lost in the discussion about whether A.I. is a good thing or a bad thing.

I would argue that perhaps the most productive debate we can have isn’t one of good versus evil: The debate should be about the values instilled in the people and institutions creating this technology.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/06/microsoft_ceo_satya_nadella_humans_and_a_i_can_work_together_to_solve_society.html