Windows ML will tap your PC hardware to smarten up Windows 10 apps with AI

Ever since the debut of Cortana within Windows 10, Microsoft has tried to inject Windows with artificial intelligence. Now it's getting even more serious with a new API, called Windows ML, that will tap your CPU or GPU to make Windows and its apps even smarter. Windows ML will debut within the "next major update to Windows 10," presumably the "Redstone 4" update set to be released to hardware partners this month. Since it's an API, every developer who writes apps for Windows will be able to take advantage of the new AI capabilities. In the future, Microsoft said, Windows ML might even take advantage of an entirely new chip: a machine vision or visual processing chip designed by a subsidiary of Intel, called Movidius.