Eyewitness  News
  • Home
Monday, January 30, 2023
  • Login
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News
No Result
View All Result
Eyewitness  News
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News
Home Technology

Microsoft Gives Productivity Tools More AI Chops

August 15, 2018
in Technology
Reading Time: 3 mins read
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Microsoft on Wednesday announced new artificial intelligence features and functionality for several of its flagship products and services, including Office 365, Cortana and Bing, at an event in San Francisco. Harry Shum, EVP of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research, demonstrated some of the new capabilities

Building on the progress the company has made in integrating AI over the past year, the new enhancements are designed to help users perform increasingly complex and complicated tasks.

“AI has come a long way in the ability to find information, but making sense of that information is the real challenge,” said Kristina Behr, a partner design and planning program manager with Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research group.

One of the advances, machine reading comprehension, will improve an AI-based system’s understanding of context — for example, recognizing that one’s cousin is a family member.

Pearson Education – Click For More

Search Benefits
Bing users will get more personalized answers, Microsoft said, such as restaurant recommendations based on travel destinations, or a greater variety of answers to offer different perspectives on a topic.

AI guidance might help users figure out the exact questions they want to ask if their search queries are too vague to deliver meaningful results.

Bing will utilize visual search as a way to help people seek information about items or objects in photos. This functionality will comprise the use of object recognition along with machine reading comprehension.

An Office AI
Microsoft announced improvements in AI integration with its Office 365 tools as well. The spreadsheet program Excel, for example, will employ machine learning as a way to analyze data and predict trends via pivot tables and charts. The new AI tools also will be able to extract insights from smaller sets of data.

Importantly, use of the new AI functionality won’t require more advanced training in Excel for users to determine which sets of data should be used to gain deeper insights.

More Conscious Cortana
Microsoft’s virtual assistant Cortana will get an upgrade as well, allowing it to make use of machine reading comprehension to summarize search results. Cortana also will be able to sort through a user’s emails to identify the most important ones and even read them aloud during a commute, for example. Use of that functionality will extend to emails from multiple accounts, including on competing services such as Gmail.

Cortana also has been enhanced with “skills chaining,” allowing it to suggest additions to one’s calendar after tickets have been booked, for example.

Astute AI
These AI advances likely will be subtle and may go unnoticed by many users.

“AI will creep more and more into our lives,” said Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics.

“Ideally it will help to make tools like Bing, Cortana and Office 365 more userful,” he told TechNewsWorld.

“This is the good AI, not the Terminator AI,” noted Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.

“In most cases, AI functions will be transparent to users just like they are in search engines today,” he told TechNewsWorld.

The AI functionality simply makes the tools more efficient and useful.

“Think of this as reducing some of the simple tasks — not the human part of the equation,” McGregor suggested, “and think about intelligent digital assistants and word predictors or spell checkers that are more reliable than the ones we have today. This will be the most common form of AI — embedded solutions that make the tools we use better, from search engines to scientific research.”

How Far to Take It
Although the most extreme AI danger may lie in the rise of machines that overpower human controls, there are more subtle menaces to consider when it comes to the place it will take in our lives.

“It is upon us to draw a line,” said Entner.

“Examples like Google and its all-encompassing ‘data kraken’ make it clear how blurry the line is between really useful and really creepy — like when your Android phone constantly asks you if you are actually shopping at the store you are at,” he pointed out. “Big brother [could be] watching all the time.”

Previous Post

Oracle Releases Second Half of Autonomous DB

Next Post

Ubuntu Budgie Whistles Up a Better Remix

Related Posts

Speaker Anita Among
Technology

Speaker Among Warns Parliament Press on Computer Misuse Act

November 5, 2022
0

Speaker Among Warns Parliament Press on Computer Misuse Act. The speaker of parliament Anita Annet Among has warned journalists accredited...

Read more
Ugandan MPs Vow to Counter GMOs

Ugandan MPs Vow to Counter GMOs

October 14, 2022
Tayebwa Wants Kiira Motors Corporation to Operate as Private Enterprise

Tayebwa Wants Kiira Motors Corporation to Operate as Private Enterprise

October 13, 2022
Russian Firm to Make Vehicle Trackers in Uganda

Russian Firm to Make Vehicle Trackers in Uganda

March 9, 2022
Parliament  Approves 104 Million  USD Loan For CCTV Network Expansion

Police ICT Directorate Hunts Drivers for Knocking CCTV Cameras

February 27, 2022
Ministry Of ICT Seeks 15BN For Mindset Change

Ministry Of ICT Seeks 15BN For Mindset Change

January 17, 2022
Next Post

Ubuntu Budgie Whistles Up a Better Remix

Speaker blocks FDC appointments

Speaker blocks FDC appointments

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Phaneroo Boss, Sudhir Grilled Over Nakawa Land

Phaneroo Boss, Sudhir Grilled Over Nakawa Land

April 22, 2022
MPs – Reaction to The State of Nation Address

West Nile MPs, Govt Chief Whip Clash Over Electricity in the Region

January 15, 2023
Gov’t Procures Sh1.9b Bone Marrow Transplant Machines

Gov’t Procures Sh1.9b Bone Marrow Transplant Machines

November 14, 2022
Spice Diana Roasted Alive By Fans on Social Media For  Being A Covid -19  Potential Carrier

Spice Diana Roasted Alive By Fans on Social Media For Being A Covid -19 Potential Carrier

March 24, 2020
Budget Advocates Concerned With New Wave Of Corruption In Govt.

Budget Advocates Concerned With New Wave Of Corruption In Govt.

1
Musoke Ibrahim a father to Rahim who is now eight years

Being A Good Father Does Not Mean Money But Love & Care

1
URBRA Cautions On NSSF Mid-Term Access 

URBRA Cautions On NSSF Mid-Term Access 

1

Hello world!

0
MPs7 MPs NAMED ON AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PROBE NSSF

MPs7 MPs NAMED ON AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PROBE NSSF

January 25, 2023
 HOUSE COMMITTEES TO PROBE COST OF ROADS IN KAMPALA

 HOUSE COMMITTEES TO PROBE COST OF ROADS IN KAMPALA

January 25, 2023
MPsMPs Task Government to Reinstate Cuts of SAGE Funds  MPs

MPsMPs Task Government to Reinstate Cuts of SAGE Funds  MPs

January 25, 2023

Minister Namugaza Censured

January 23, 2023

Recent News

MPs7 MPs NAMED ON AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PROBE NSSF

MPs7 MPs NAMED ON AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PROBE NSSF

January 25, 2023
 HOUSE COMMITTEES TO PROBE COST OF ROADS IN KAMPALA

 HOUSE COMMITTEES TO PROBE COST OF ROADS IN KAMPALA

January 25, 2023
MPsMPs Task Government to Reinstate Cuts of SAGE Funds  MPs

MPsMPs Task Government to Reinstate Cuts of SAGE Funds  MPs

January 25, 2023

Minister Namugaza Censured

January 23, 2023

Eyewitnessug.com is Licensed by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Under Dominion Media Limited.

Dominion Media Limited is registered by Uganda Revenue Authority.

For Advertisement Reach out to Marketing Department via.
Email: [email protected]

Contact us through our Postal Address.
P.O.BOX 21157 Kampala-Uganda.

Browse by Category

  • Agiriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Business
  • Development
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Editor's Pick
  • Education
  • Entertainment & Arts
  • Enviroment
  • Faith
  • Feature News
  • Governance
  • Health
  • International
  • Latest News
  • obituary
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Politics
  • Security
  • Social
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Tourism

Recent News

MPs7 MPs NAMED ON AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PROBE NSSF

MPs7 MPs NAMED ON AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PROBE NSSF

January 25, 2023
 HOUSE COMMITTEES TO PROBE COST OF ROADS IN KAMPALA

 HOUSE COMMITTEES TO PROBE COST OF ROADS IN KAMPALA

January 25, 2023
  • Home

© 2021 Allrights Reserved EYEWITNESS NEWS UGANDA

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News

© 2021 Allrights Reserved EYEWITNESS NEWS UGANDA

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
error: Content is protected !!