Microsoft artificial intelligence isn't 'drive-by analytics'

This year, artificial intelligence has taken center stage as a technology to watch. From Salesforce to IBM to Oracle to Microsoft, all technology providers have been honing some version of AI and machine learning technologies. Microsoft rolled out its latest iteration of services for AI at the Microsoft Ignite conference in September. At Ignite, the company outlined Microsoft artificial intelligence in four areas of technology: agents, applications, services and infrastructure. By bringing AI to these four areas, Microsoft is hoping to make applications like Outlook more intelligent, helping workers to find documents relevant to their meetings more easily.