“The Fox Business Network anchor, who recently re-signed with the network for a multiyear deal, is releasing an hour-long investigative documentary about artificial intelligence. The documentary will air on Sunday at 8 p.m. EST on Fox News FOX and is broken into six parts.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/35C34A26-DB0C-11E9-9CE6-686770537BF1
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Microsoft inches closer to releasing its AI-powered Scheduler bot
“We’ve been working to create a digital assistant that can help you schedule meetings so there are no more back and forth emails. Learn how you can delegate the creation of your meetings to Scheduler. Scheduler uses natural language processing to understand your needs and negotiate an appropriate time with your invitees, find you a…
Former Siri chief is leaving Apple to join Microsoft’s AI division
Bill Stasior http://linkedin.com/in/billstasior “Bill Stasior, the former head of Apple’s Siri division, is leaving the company after nearly a decade to join Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division, reports The Information.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/8/19/20812981/apple-siri-bill-stasior-leaving-company-microsoft-joining-ai-cortana
Is Google leading the image recognition engine race?
“The top-level results of the study show Google Vision to be the best of the engines when it comes to basic accuracy. 81.7% of the 2000 images it tagged were accurate, second only to the human team who managed to tag the images with 87.7% accuracy.” https://www.clickz.com/image-recognition-engine-comparison/254682/
Microsoft invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence lab co-founded by Elon Musk
“The companies said Monday that they will build a hardware and software platform of “unprecedented scale” within Microsoft’s cloud service provider Azure that will train and run increasingly advanced AI models. Microsoft will also become OpenAI’s preferred partner for selling its technologies and the two will jointly develop Azure’s supercomputing technology. ” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1794348001