Box taps cloud giants' machine learning to create custom data 'skills' - SiliconANGLE

Box Inc. wants its customers to do more with all the files they're storing on its content management service. Today, it announced a couple of new tools powered in part by machine learning technology to give customers more ways to extract value from the data -- and more reasons to pay Box for extra services. Box Skills is a software framework that uses machine learning, a set of technologies that allow computers to learn akin to way the brain does rather than being explicitly programmed, to do tasks such as computer vision for image analysis, video indexing and sentiment analysis from audio. The capability was announced at its BoxWorks conference this week in San Francisco, as part of Box's goal to make Box "the most intelligent cloud content management platform," as Chief Executive Aaron Levie puts it. The San Francisco-based company today previewed three skills that are still in development.