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Microsoft and Google have announced plans to expand their machine learning capabilities, through acquisition and new research offices respectively, reports Telecoms.com.

This sounds like science-fiction, I know, but so did talking to a digital assistant in a powerful pocket-sized touch screen computer fifteen years ago. As the data has shown the current, "warehouse of apps" app model does not work efficiently with human behavior. The 2014 Comscore Mobile App Report shows that 7% of the smartphone using population downloads 50% of the apps. When incorporated into the rest of the population that averages to just one download per user per month. This data is supported by app discovery activity data that reveals a mere 27% of the smartphone using population (millennials) uses the app store to discover apps as shown in the 2015 Comscore Mobile App Report.

In //Build 2016, Microsoft introduced something cool called'Bot Framework'… basically a new framework for developers to help them create a chat bot and connect it by'Connectors' and chat services like Telegram and Skype…and distribute it, the concept here is to implement a natural language in any app, which is good! In this post, I'll guide you to create you first natural language bot using Microsoft Bot Framework and test it locally using Bot Framework Emulator. Well, you have to pick an idea for a bot first, I decided to create a weather bot… simply you can ask it about the weather condition in some city at some time.. maybe it's not a pretty good idea, but it's good to test the framework . It's very important to understand the flow of the bot we're trying to build, it's simple as this image describe: It's the most important part of any bot, understand the language… after receiving a new message we've to make our bot able to understand it and process it, but how? Thankfully, Microsoft announced a set of *smart* APIs called'Microsoft Cognitive Services', and a part of these APIs is Language Understanding Intelligent Service a.k.a'LUIS'. This API is so cool, it let you create an app, and train it on some'utterances' and highlight some of the entities and so on.

For a machine learning junkie like me, there was lots to love at Build 2016! In this post, I'll fill you in on the machine learning announcements from Build. In summary, we announced previews of the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) for adding intelligence to your applications. The Microsoft Bot Framework allows you to build intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally in writing, using text/SMS, Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail, and other popular services. During the keynote, they showed an example Domino's Pizza bot which you could talk to (actually, type to) in natural language to order a pizza.

In a span of two and a half hours, Microsoft packed a lot into the opening keynote of its Build 2016 conference. But it was the last video shown that seem to have the biggest impact on many of the viewers at home: the introduction of an AI that helps one of its blind developers "see." At the very end of its keynote, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reiterated that he wants technology to enhance the ways humans communicate. Though the many chat bots he introduced earlier seems technologically "smart," the framework behind it still needs the help of developers to continue improving on what has already been built. Some of the biggest names in tech are coming to TNW Conference in Amsterdam this May.

I had the pleasure of being one of the lucky individuals who attended Microsoft Build 2016. I use the term "lucky" because the conference sold out in less than 2 minutes. Build routinely sells out, but selling out in less than 2 minutes makes the event seem more like a rock concert than a Microsoft developer conference. Don't get me wrong, we "Microsoft guys" are pretty cool, but selling out at the speed of a rock concert is certainly rare. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, was the headliner for the keynote speech at Build 2016.

Recently, Microsoft introduced a new AI chatbot called Tay. The company pulled the chatbot after a lot of drama last week. However, as it seems like, the company has big plans for artificial intelligence. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Microsoft is building "an army" of artificial intelligence bots, which will get revealed later today at Build 2016. At the conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will apparently unveil his new vision, which he is calling "conversation as a platform." The software giant will reveal several bots, which will have different tasks.

In a span of two and a half hours, Microsoft packed a lot into the opening keynote of its Build 2016 conference. But it was the last video shown that seem to have the biggest impact on many of the viewers at home: the introduction of an AI that helps one of its blind developers "see." At the very end of its keynote, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reiterated that he wants technology to enhance the ways humans communicate. Though the many chat bots he introduced earlier seems technologically "smart," the framework behind it still needs the help of developers to continue improving on what has already been built. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet!

Microsoft unveiled a slew of new products at its Build 2016 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. They offered cues about the emerging technologies healthcare CIOs and IT professionals should be keeping an eye on right now: artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and what CEO Satya Nadella called conversational intelligence. "Conversations as-a-platform is a simple concept yet very powerful in impact," Nadella said. The unveiling of Microsoft's new conversational intelligence tool comes close on the heels of Google's GCP Next confab this past week, where the search giant revealed its Cloud Machine Learning family of hosted applications. The software giant rechristened its Cortana Analytics Suite as the Cortana Intelligence Suite to deliver "the power of Big Data, Cloud and Intelligence to build the next generation of intelligent solutions, whether it is to reinvent healthcare, transform transportation or revolutionize retail," Microsoft's data group's corporate vice president Joseph Sirosh wrote on the company's site.