Microsoft's cognitive services and AI everywhere vision are making AI in our image

Microsoft is positioning itself as the world's platform for artificial intelligence, and that's a smart move. In 2014 I wrote that Microsoft's Cortana would be the next big thing. Redmond's vision for its johnny-come-lately AI is that it, like the GUI before it, will be pivotal in the evolution of the personal computing user interface. Microsoft's ambitions for Cortana were evident in 2014. Microsoft envisions an unbounded AI that developers and partners will incorporate into a range of everyday and innovative devices enabled by the Cortana SDK.