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Microsoft Launches Cognitive Services Based On Project Oxford and Bing (venturebeat.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the machine-learning-tools dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has announced updates to its portfolio of machine learning tools at its Build conference in San Francisco. Previously, they had fallen under the Project Oxford name, but now they are being rebranded to Microsoft Cognitive Services. According to Microsoft senior program manager Cornelia Carapcea, there are now 22 APIs available in Cognitive Services. There are also prices for the new services, along with APIs made available from Microsoft's Bing search division. Developers can try out these services for free.

21 comments

  1. Microsoft is dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Microsoft is dead.

    1. Re:Microsoft is dead. by gweihir · · Score: 1

      Naaa, they can make Nazi-Sexbots! (Well, chatterbots, but still...) There must be a market for that.

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    2. Re:Microsoft is dead. by zenlessyank · · Score: 1

      Hehehe. Wasn't it only a week or 2 ago that experiment happened? I guess that was the result they were looking for and now it is all up for downloading with extras. 10 million cloud servers screaming...err, chatting away our bandwidth and sanity. Firewall and suicide net sales will be up. PS. That word 'cognitive' kinda worries me.

    3. Re:Microsoft is dead. by TapeCutter · · Score: 1

      That word 'cognitive' kinda worries me.

      IBM, and more recently Google, have come up with useful AI systems that are within the price range of a small startup company, IMO it is the beginnings of genuinely useful AI tools and in many ways it's a new market that deserves a new phrase to describe it. IBM have been marketing their AI tools under the umbrella of "cognitive computing" for some years now, The MS marketing department is using the word "cognitive" in classic "me too" style, they are trying to equate their racist chatbot to IBM's 'Watson' because they can see the huge potential and want a piece of the pie.

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  2. Re:Stop catering to the vocal minority by gweihir · · Score: 2

    Fascinating, that a "no-ID" complains about "low-ID" ones. Incidentally, my impression was far more than the ones criticizing anti-MS articles are mostly high-ID posters?

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  3. PORRA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Vai a merda! Tô cagando e andando pra rainha da sucata.

  4. Re:Stop catering to the vocal minority by zenlessyank · · Score: 1

    This. Exactly. Mod Up. I can't. Whipslash says no. I would never mod my own comment. That would be Nazi-like. Like when you go to the airport.

  5. IBM right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    so, in the end, IBM, who was talking three years ago abour cognitive computing, was right! they are ahead and they even have a chip, synapse, for doing that. Always IBM doing interesting stuff. Slowly, at their pace, but fundamentally better than other hype oriented stuff.

    1. Re:IBM right! by TapeCutter · · Score: 2

      Slowly, at their pace, but fundamentally better than other hype oriented stuff.

      Agree, IBM's "Blue Brain" project has been mapping the brain of a rodent at the molecular level, one microscope slide at a time, for over a decade. The wealth of raw data that this has produced for medical researchers is astonishing, in particular it has been a great gift for neuroscientists. The project is a genuine "public good" and deserves more of our attention than a racist twitter bot.

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  6. bad headline by swell · · Score: 1

    "Microsoft Launches Cognitive Services Based On Project Oxford and Bing"

    BeauHD: You forgot to put a capital A on the word 'and'. Please pay attention in the future.

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  7. Is MSFT paying for stories today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seriously wtf already.

    1. Re:Is MSFT paying for stories today? by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 2

      Amidst all these MS stories is the single, underlying one: MS had a developers conference in which many Wizards of Oz performed their tricks, and many journalists excitedly published those single items, and many Slashdotters submitted them here.

      In an ideal world all the mini-stories would get summarized and synthesized into one big master story, but that's not how Slashdot operates.

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    2. Re:Is MSFT paying for stories today? by bondsbw · · Score: 1

      Different topics should have different posts. Doing so directs conversation, provides better organization, and eases search.

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  8. Cognitive Services by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We'll do the thinking for you... wholesale!

  9. Yeah, that's groovy and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But when will Microsoft switch to Open Document Format as the default in its office software?

    1. Re: Yeah, that's groovy and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      just run ubuntu nativelly from the console in win 10. they are finally giving up...

  10. Re:The Microsoft slashdot .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Microsoft is a huge company with a lot going on. That's news, no matter if fucking trolls such as yourself like it or not.

  11. Sentiment Analysis not working very well by Heart44 · · Score: 1

    I tried their sentiment analysis with some pages with very negative content and the grading by Microsoft was very much hit and miss. Semantria is doing a much better job, regrettable as they are much more expensive.