Microsoft is in the midst of a deal that would bring the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant back to life, according to reporting by The Washington Post. If the name sounds familiar, it's because the Pennsylvania plant was home to a partial meltdown of one of its reactors back in 1979. The deal would make Microsoft the plant's sole customer for 20 years, meaning it'll hoover up 100 percent of the power all for itself. Why does the company need so much juice? It's for AI, which is notoriously power hungry.

Microsoft wants to make its AI service for work, Microsoft 365 Copilot, basically ubiquitous within its ecosystem. And at its Ignite conference, Microsoft is well on its way to launch Copilot services early next year. For consumers, Copilot means adding additional AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Office apps like Outlook and Teams. Microsoft is planning to remove the "Bing Chat" brand that has marked its early forays into AI and just replace it with "Copilot," for both consumers and enterprises. Copilot is also moving out of preview, and will become generally available starting December 1. If you've used Windows Copilot -- especially while working with the Copilot sidebar open -- you may have noticed Copilot react to what you're doing elsewhere on the screen.

Microsoft's helpful Bing AI chatbot will be getting more ads, the company recently announced in a blog post, which was penned by corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi. In a statement to The Verge, Caitlin Roulston, the company's director of communications, clarified that the "ads will show in the new Bing, specifically in chat (as they do in traditional search results)." Twitter user Debarghya Das provided a helpful visual on what the ads may look like within Bing chatbot after seeing some appear when asking about cheap Hondas. As you can see in the screenshot below, there are a number of tiny Ad boxes in the most relevant spots. These boxes will link back to Bing, of course.

Among the many challenges that physicians face, one of the most cumbersome is clinical documentation. In a study published by the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, it was found that nearly 92% of physicians surveyed reported that "documentation obligations are excessive," and 73% reported that clinical documentation often has a negative impact on patient care. The goal behind detailed clinical documentation is to ultimately ensure great record keeping: in an ideal world, a comprehensive patient chart enables any treating provider to see a patient's entire medical and treatment history. Furthermore, the healthcare system has been built in such a way that documentation plays a critical administrative role. Healthcare organizations use patient charts to code and bill for services provided.

DAVOS, Switzerland--Microsoft Corp. plans to incorporate artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT into all of its products and make them available as platforms for other businesses to build on, Chief Executive Satya Nadella said. Speaking Tuesday at a Wall Street Journal panel at the World Economic Forum's annual event here in the Swiss mountains, Mr. Nadella said that his company will move quickly to commercialize tools from OpenAI, the research lab behind the ChatGPT chatbot as well as image generator Dall-E 2, which turns language prompts into novel images. Microsoft was an early investor in the startup.

Microsoft will also put new controls on its face recognition feature, which can be used to perform identity checks or search for a particular person. Uber, for example, uses the software in its app to verify that a driver's face matches the ID on file for that driver's account. Software developers who want to use Microsoft's facial recognition tool will need to apply for access and explain how they plan to deploy it. Users will also be required to apply and explain how they will use other potentially abusive A.I. systems, such as Custom Neural Voice. The service can generate a human voice print, based on a sample of someone's speech, so that authors, for example, can create synthetic versions of their voice to read their audiobooks in languages they don't speak.

"We're taking concrete steps to live up to our A.I. principles," said Natasha Crampton, Microsoft's chief responsible AI officer. For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person's age, gender and emotional state can be biased, unreliable or invasive -- and shouldn't be sold. Acknowledging some of those criticisms, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it planned to remove those features from its artificial intelligence service for detecting, analyzing and recognizing faces. They will stop being available to new users this week, and will be phased out for existing users within the year. The changes are part of a push by Microsoft for tighter controls of its artificial intelligence products.

Taking on the challenges head-on that stand in the way of their low-code platforms growing, Microsoft's series of new product announcements this week at Build 2022 gives organizations new options for achieving low-code development goals. Microsoft's series of low-code announcements made this week include Power Pages, the latest Microsoft Power Platform addition for creating integrated, scalable and secure websites. Lured by the promises of democratizing app development with visual, declarative, drag and drop interfaces often bundled with enterprise-wide platforms like Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow and others, enterprises have been quick to jump in and experiment. They're learning that support for a low-code platform can get expensive fast once app development moves from small department coding projects to larger-scale, enterprise-wide apps. Low-code platforms' hidden costs include limited process workflow support that further adds to the challenge of scaling them enterprise-wide.

Microsoft plans to spend $40 million to support collaborative projects leveraging artificial intelligence for medical research and discoveries. The five-year program, called AI for Health, is the fifth program Microsoft has rolled out as part of its AI for Good initiative, the tech giant announced Wednesday. Microsoft's AI for Good is a $165 million program to provide researchers and nonprofits with technology tools to address pressing concerns such as global climate, humanitarian and accessibility issues. "Artificial intelligence has the potential to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges, like improving the health of communities around the world," said Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said in a statement. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement that AI "represents one of technology's most important priorities, and healthcare is perhaps AI's most urgent application."

Machine learning is highly pervasive today so much so that we use it a dozen times a day without even realizing. Machine learning involves getting computers to learn, think, and act on their own without human interference. As described by Google, "Machine learning is the future." With an increasing number of humans becoming addicted to their machines, the future of machine learning looks very bright. We are indeed witnesses to a new revolution which is taking over the world owing to its immense potential.