> 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.
The 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.
Only 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.
This 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.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 54.4 ms ] threadYeah, 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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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.
http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine