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Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division
- forgetfullest 10y ago> At Microsoft, we are focused on empowering both people and organizations Yeah, right. Any and all of the big ones will never create artificial intelligence.. they by definition can only create (and keep) things/entities that have patience for empty marketing speak.
- forgetfullest 10y agoPeople so shit they can't even despise themselves. Well, I can do it for you, with resources to spare :)
- sctb 10y agoPlease comment civilly and substantively on HN or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- olympus 10y agoThe link title is misleading. MS will not have 5k people working on AI. They merged their MS Research and their AI engineering team. It's not like they are going to drop all the other research they are doing to focus solely on AI. The new org is called the AI and Research Group. This is just a reorganization to democratize some of the resources available within MS.
- tluyben2 10y agoHope not... their rise4fun teams are some of the best stuff I can find on the web. Please keep that fundamental research alive.
- kowdermeister 10y agoI don't understand how that's not the same. Ok, they are not hiring 5000 new people, but the end result is the same.
- basch 10y agothere are people who research things besides AI
- quickmouse 10y agowith more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused on the company’s AI product efforts.
- eitally 10y agoOnly if you stretch that definition beyond what most people are comfortable doing. The org includes the entire Bing team, for example. This would be like Google saying they have an x,xxx big AI team because they include the whole Search org, or the Apps org because they use ML in their products, too, and so do the Maps Mobile team, etc ad infinitum. It's great that MS is merging these dispersed orgs, and the actual headline is fine, but calling it a "5,000 person AI division" is disingenuous at best.
- 0xFFC 10y agoThis seems good strategy. I am no expert, but AFAIK Microsoft research division is maybe (the) most advanced and most achieved research division in whole industry. Just look at people with H-Index more than 30 who works in Microsoft research.
- hood_syntax 10y agoI wouldn't be surprised, they are very happy to pay smart people to work part time on their favorite problems (Simon Peyton Jones for example)
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- xedarius 10y agoRemember when we missed 'The Internet' ... let's not miss 'AI'
- Houshalter 10y agoThat's scary. The world is rushing full speed towards AGI. Yet few are working on or care about the hard problem of actually controlling AGI.
- meeper16 10y agoThey did that with Bing too, 5k people, and Bing wound up getting busted for stealing Google's search results: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=bing%20steal%20google%20search%20results https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
- learningbot 10y agoMicrosoft is going in right direction. New CEO seems to know what he is doing.
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- Dowwie 10y agoWhich office location(s) are planned for this?
- faragon 10y agoSo Microsoft finally will be able to implement Clippy properly :-)
- DanBC 10y agoClippy is pretty interesting because they had a good product, and then removed a bunch of features which turned it into a sucky awful product. http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine
- faragon 10y agoSure, that was the intention of the pun ;-)