“Survey respondents reported cost savings of roughly 20% on average over the past two years across processes in finance, human resources, supply chain and procurement, and service delivery and operations. Microsoft finance has reduced by 20% the time spent compiling and validating data, which saves over 150,000 hours of work every quarter. In addition, chatbots…
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Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
“Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your self-given tasks into items on an automatically generated to-do list.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenextweb.com/neural/2020/05/14/microsofts-new-ai-can-generate-smart-to-do-lists-from-your-emails/amp/
NBA and Microsoft plan personalized, AI-powered game streaming
“Microsoft and the NBA are teaming up to deliver personalized game broadcasts that use machine learning and AI to learn fans’ preferences. Microsoft will also become the “Official Artificial Intelligence Partner” for the WNBA, NBA G League and USA Basketball.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/nba-microsoft-ai-game-streaming-193552938.html
Baidu: AI Exceeds Human Natural Language Comprehension And Open Source Could Make It Even Better
“Natural language comprehension. And in the last year and a half, it’s where Baidu has made the biggest progress, as its system, ERNIE (short for Enhanced Representation through kNowledge Integration), is presently the best in the world by GLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation) score. Earlier this year, Baidu had the surprise distinction of shaking up…
CEO Satya Nadella’s decision to name Microsoft’s first-ever chief scientific officer shows how AI is key to his master plan to finding the next big market
“Microsoft recently appointed its first-ever chief scientific officer – the latest title to join CEO Satya Nadella’s C-suite. The company promoted Eric Horvitz – a longtime technical fellow and Microsoft Research director – to the role, where he’ll be charged with advising company leaders on scientific matters including “critical areas” such as artificial intelligence.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/usa-today-news.com/news/ceo-satya-nadellas-decision-to-name-microsofts-first-ever-chief-scientific-officer-shows-how-ai-is-key-to-his-master-plan-to-finding-the-next-big-market-msft/amp/