Microsoft is putting AI everywhere it can

It's an insight you'd expect to hear from, maybe, Watson parent IBM, Alexa's mom, Amazon, or even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talking about "M." The source, however is Microsoft Corporate VP for Microsoft AI & Research Group Andrew Shuman who was trying to set the stage for what should be some significant artificial intelligence announcements next week at Microsoft's annual Build developer's conference. Microsoft has been in the artificial intelligence game for a long time, Shuman reminded me, especially from a Microsoft Research Standpoint. They've used it to build speech processing and "We're one of only two companies that created a world index of the web [Bing], which takes a lot of AI." However, the recent surge in artificial intelligence developments has created an AI land-rush, where it seems like every tech company, including Microsoft, is promising to do more with machine learning and cognitive computing.