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Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

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Re: Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

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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.

Re: Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

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post #3

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.

Hope not... their rise4fun teams are some of the best stuff I can find on the web. Please keep that fundamental research alive.

Re: Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

#5
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.

Re: Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

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> 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.

People so shit they can't even despise themselves. Well, I can do it for you, with resources to spare :)

Re: Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

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post #3

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.

I don't understand how that's not the same. Ok, they are not hiring 5000 new people, but the end result is the same.

Re: Microsoft creates 5000-person AI division

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post #3

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.

I don't understand how that's not the same. Ok, they are not hiring 5000 new people, but the end result is the same.

there are people who research things besides AI
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