Microsoft Launches Cognitive Services Based On Project Oxford and Bing

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has announced updates to its portfolio of machine learning tools at its Build conference in San Francisco. Previously, they had fallen under the Project Oxford name, but now they are being rebranded to Microsoft Cognitive Services. According to Microsoft senior program manager Cornelia Carapcea, there are now 22 APIs available in Cognitive Services. There are also prices for the new services, along with APIs made available from Microsoft's Bing search division. Developers can try out these services for free.

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[gweihir]

Fascinating, that a "no-ID" complains about "low-ID" ones. Incidentally, my impression was far more than the ones criticizing anti-MS articles are mostly high-ID posters?

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[zenlessyank]

This. Exactly. Mod Up. I can't. Whipslash says no. I would never mod my own comment. That would be Nazi-like. Like when you go to the airport.

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[gweihir]

Naaa, they can make Nazi-Sexbots! (Well, chatterbots, but still...) There must be a market for that.

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[zenlessyank]

Hehehe. Wasn't it only a week or 2 ago that experiment happened? I guess that was the result they were looking for and now it is all up for downloading with extras. 10 million cloud servers screaming...err, chatting away our bandwidth and sanity. Firewall and suicide net sales will be up. PS. That word 'cognitive' kinda worries me.

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[TapeCutter]

That word 'cognitive' kinda worries me.

IBM, and more recently Google, have come up with useful AI systems that are within the price range of a small startup company, IMO it is the beginnings of genuinely useful AI tools and in many ways it's a new market that deserves a new phrase to describe it. IBM have been marketing their AI tools under the umbrella of "cognitive computing" for some years now, The MS marketing department is using the word "cognitive" in classic "me too" style, they are trying to equate their racist chatbot to IBM's 'Watson'

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[TapeCutter]

Slowly, at their pace, but fundamentally better than other hype oriented stuff.

Agree, IBM's "Blue Brain" project has been mapping the brain of a rodent at the molecular level, one microscope slide at a time, for over a decade. The wealth of raw data that this has produced for medical researchers is astonishing, in particular it has been a great gift for neuroscientists. The project is a genuine "public good" and deserves more of our attention than a racist twitter bot.

bad headline

[swell]

"Microsoft Launches Cognitive Services Based On Project Oxford and Bing"

BeauHD: You forgot to put a capital A on the word 'and'. Please pay attention in the future.

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[Freshly Exhumed]

Amidst all these MS stories is the single, underlying one: MS had a developers conference in which many Wizards of Oz performed their tricks, and many journalists excitedly published those single items, and many Slashdotters submitted them here.

In an ideal world all the mini-stories would get summarized and synthesized into one big master story, but that's not how Slashdot operates.

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[bondsbw]

Different topics should have different posts. Doing so directs conversation, provides better organization, and eases search.

Sentiment Analysis not working very well

[Heart44]

I tried their sentiment analysis with some pages with very negative content and the grading by Microsoft was very much hit and miss. Semantria is doing a much better job, regrettable as they are much more expensive.