Microsoft Has an Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, and Here's a Rare Look Inside – TechEBlog

Yes, Microsoft has an artificial intelligence research lab, and the BBC gives us a rare look inside. AI refers to machines or computer systems that behave in a way simulating human intelligence, and a Microsoft project that makes use of this technology is "Seeing AI", an app designed to help people with a visual impairment get information about their world through the camera of a smartphone. "Science fiction has made an indelible impression on what people understand artificial intelligence (AI) to be. There is much anxiety that AI will take jobs, and fear that intelligent robots may harm us and one day take over the world. This causes us at Microsoft great concern because if AI is to truly benefit society, we must gain the trust of the people whose lives it will transform," said Chris Bishop, Lab Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge and Microsoft Technical Fellow.