At the dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) era Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

Earlier this week I attended an interesting session on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computing organised by Microsoft. The highlight of the session was the conversation between Nandan Nilekani and Satya Nadella, where the Microsoft CEO mentioned that his top three focus areas for the future would be cloud and AI, Agents (bots) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Augmented Reality (AR). The session had a number of very interesting demos that utilised Microsoft's cognitive toolkit to address real world issues. While the indiscriminate use of the term AI did distress me, I was heartened to hear Satya Nadella caution everyone to be realistic about AI and its applicability. We are at the dawn of a new age right now, somewhat akin to what people must have felt when the industrial revolution started.