Microsoft's cognitive services and AI everywhere vision are making AI in our image

Microsoft is positioning itself as the world's platform for artificial intelligence, and that's a smart move.

In 2014 I wrote that Microsoft's Cortana would be the next big thing. I may be right. Redmond's vision for its johnny-come-lately AI is that it, like the GUI before it, will be pivotal in the evolution of the personal computing user interface.

Microsoft's ambitions for Cortana were evident in 2014.

Microsoft envisions an unbounded AI that developers and partners will incorporate into a range of everyday and innovative devices enabled by the Cortana SDK.

They also see an AI that will follow users across platforms and devices while retaining access to all of their digital information.

Through Microsoft's Home Hub, a diverse range of appliances, and third-party Amazon Echo-like devices, Redmond is positioning Cortana and a cadre of bots as ambient, ever-present intelligences.

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