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Good luck because great minds think alike. Getting a product idea finished and out to market takes time, and competitors might be able to do it faster. Skype T
by orionblastar 11y ago
Good luck because great minds think alike. Getting a product idea finished and out to market takes time, and competitors might be able to do it faster.
Skype Translate reminds me of the Star Trek universal translator but it can only do several languages. I remember when Babelfish came out and some translations didn't take too well. There has always been a need for a computer to translate foreign languages and to translate accurately as well.
I think Apple is trying to do the same things as Microsoft for their iPhone and Macintosh series. So Microsoft has to compete with Apple too to get new ideas to market.
It is a shame that Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple can't work together to share ideas and see which ones does them best.
- harigov 11y agoThey are sharing ideas. A lot of these technologies have research roots that are published in open journals. Although the companies are competitors, people behind those companies are scientific minded individuals interested in furthering the technological possibilities.
- jeffjose 11y agoIf anything, the race to attract top minds has actually forced these companies to open source their proprietary libraries. (TensorFlow, CNTK etc). While they might not be working together, there's definitely a greater good that has happened as a side-effect. I'd argue that the open sourcing of libraries is better than 2 big companies working secretly.
- Joof 11y agoAll Microsoft research (or at least a huge chunk of it) is published in open journals. I can't say the same for acadamia.