Opinion: Microsoft now considers AI a top priority – and it’s about time

Microsoft should be a pioneer alongside Google when it comes to artificial intelligence, but the company only now appears to consider it a priority. In the company's annual report for the 2017 fiscal year, AI is now mentioned on six occasions. Compared to not a single mention in the previous report, it’s clear Microsoft is now putting more of its focus on artificial intelligence. Microsoft also indicates this in their corporate vision statement: "Our strategic vision is to compete and...

4 August 2017 | Developers

UNICEF joins Apple, Google, Facebook et al in AI partnership

UNICEF has announced it has joined Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with data technologists at the organisation’s Office of Innovation aiming to create collaborations to innovatively solve humanitarian challenges for social good and to benefit children. Chris Fabian, senior advisor of ventures at UNICEF Innovation believes UNICEF to be in a position to cater to the needs of vulnerable children and to bring about positive changes in their lives through usage of advanced...

18 May 2017 | Healthcare

University of Cambridge bolsters AI research efforts with new partnerships

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) is joining a not-for-profit, international coalition, Partnership on AI, which is founded by the likes of Amazon, Apple, Google/DeepMind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft, according to an announcement from the University of Cambridge. CFI is a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial College London and the University of California at Berkeley and is funded by an unprecedented £10 million grant from the...

17 May 2017 | Applications