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How Machine Learning Ate Microsoft

Posted by samzenpus on from the doing-it-smarter dept.

snydeq writes Yesterday's announcement of Azure Machine Learning offers the latest sign of Microsoft's deep machine learning expertise — now available to developers everywhere, InfoWorld reports. "Machine learning has infiltrated Microsoft products from Bing to Office to Windows 8 to Xbox games. Its flashiest vehicle may be the futuristic Skype Translator, which handles two-way voice conversations in different languages. Now, with machine learning available on the Azure cloud, developers can build learning capabilities into their own applications: recommendations, sentiment analysis, fraud detection, fault prediction, and more. The idea of the new Azure offering is to democratize machine learning, so you no longer need to hire someone with a doctorate to use a machine learning algorithm."

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  1. Autocorrect :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ate or Aid?

  2. Dammit! by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "recommendations, sentiment analysis, fraud detection, fault prediction, and more."

    I'll never get a job again if they use that in interviews.

  3. Microsoft Bob by sycodon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bob set machine learning back a century.

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