Microsoft's vision of the future is Skynet for ordering pizza

The recent victory of Google's AlphaGo over top-tier Go champion Lee Sedol put artificial intelligence back in the public mind, and Google is at the top on the list of companies most likely to produce our future robot overlords. Yet Microsoft has swooped in and, as decisively as AlphaGo beat Sedol, stolen its rival's thunder with a comprehensive initiative that wants to put AI everywhere. And I do mean everywhere. Microsoft envisions a world full of bots – so full, that you may end up interacting with them more often that you do real human beings. That future isn't here quite yet, but Redmond's engineers are laying the groundwork, and the company's plan sounds like the outline for a new episode of Black Mirror.