Microsoft Launches Artificial Intelligence Research Lab

Microsoft Corp. MSFT recently announced the launch of Microsoft Research AI lab. It will focus on obstacles faced in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Based at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA, the research lab will involve more than 100 scientists related to various subfields including natural language processing, machine learning, visual perception and decision making, among others. Notably, the AI technologies used today are dedicated to specific tasks. Microsoft's idea is to combine these and form a single AI technology that will have a cognitive approach.