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Microsoft's new plan is to flood your entire life with artificial intelligence "We want to bring intelligence to everything, to everywhere, and for everyone," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told developers earlier this year. Artificial intelligence has been the company's touchstone technology since Cortana, Microsoft's virtual personal assistant was added to Windows more than a year ago. Since then Microsoft has released a deluge of AI-bolstered features in its operating system and standalone software. Skype is augmented with real-time translation. You can talk to bots built on Microsoft software on nearly any messaging platform, and a suite of tools for developers mean the apps you use every day can be configured to call a Microsoft server to identify a face in an image or run speech recognition.