Why is Microsoft capable of winning Google with artificial intelligence?

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In the mobile field created by the appearance of smartphones, Apple and Google have taken the initiative in the market and Microsoft, which had been overwhelmingly powerful in the OS field, has not shown a remarkable success. However, recently it has attracted the attention of huge IT companies "Chat botRegarding the field of "Microsoft, we are confident that we have advantages over rivals such as Apple and Google, and the reason for that is the IT-related media The Verge.

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A Facebook application that announces the platform of chatbot using Facebook Messenger, and a messaging application featuring a chatbot that Google will assist with artificial intelligence "Allo"The development of chat bots has been actively carried out among huge IT companies, such as announcing. Microsoft also announced on March 31, 2016 "Microsoft Build 2016"We announced a plan to utilize Bot as an automatic response system using artificial intelligence and a framework" Bot Framework "of a chat bot that can be used in conjunction with a chat application such as Skype.


In the first place, a chat bot is a program that automatically responds to a user's message, but due to the development of artificial intelligence technology in recent years, a learning function is provided, not a mechanical response, but a correspondence that talks to a real person It has become possible to do. As the chat bot evolves, users can book restaurants and hairdressers directly from the message application, so far it has become possible to do with chat based conversation what they had done from browsers and applications, and the chatbot will evolve greatly in the future We are attracting attention as a field we will do.

Microsoft is confident in the chat bot using this artificial intelligence. It is not well-known, but since earlier than Google and Facebook, Microsoft has been working on developing chat bots. In July 2014, in China we released a chat bot "Xiaoice"One year after that, in July 2015, a high school girls high school student chat bot"RinReleased. Rinna has services deployed on LINE and Twitter, etc. In LINE, approximately 3.7 million users register Rin into friends.


And, Microsoft said long-awaited English chat bot "March 23, 2016"TayAlthough it released, in the situation that it stopped at several hours from the start of service as it began to use racial discrimination and violence expression learned from conversation with the user. Chatbot using English has failed, but Microsoft is saying that "I got a lot of things that can be used in the future from Xiaoice," Microsoft is confident of restarting English chat bots.

It is not only because Microsoft has confidence in taking the initiative in the field of chatbots because it started service earlier than other companies. Executive Vice President of Microsoft Applications & ServicesQi LiIn order for Microsoft to win in the field of chatbot, Mr. "Conversation and chat based service" "Artificial intelligence" "Social graph"A platform for artificial intelligence" "Developer network" We say that we need five assets.

Looking at the five assets listed by Mr. Liu individually one by one, for example, in artificial intelligence, Google might be better than Microsoft. Social graphs meaning human correlation on the web are obvious on Facebook. However, Mr. Liu told the five assets in a comprehensive way, "Microsoft has everything necessary to lead the future." Microsoft is deploying Skype and Cortana, and research on artificial intelligence has also started over 20 years ago. In addition, business-related SNSAcquired LinkedIn for 2.8 trillion yenAnd I have Windows on the platform for artificial intelligence. Microsoft has all five elements necessary to lead Liu's chat bot field.

However, it is also true that there are walls that have yet to overcome, such as the failure of Tay mentioned above, and the simultaneous interpretation function of Skype combining speech recognition and machine learning is unpopular.