Microsoft's Cortana AI gives programmable bots listening and decisionmaking skills

Cortana used to represent Microsoft’s user-facing AI and reside largely in Windows. But times have changed, and she’s now evolved from one persona into the technology powering hundreds of automated bots, architected by Microsoft’s customers—meaning you could meet a Cortana-like intelligence in a lot more places. That includes the Cortana prototype device that Microsoft demonstrated at last year's Microsoft Build conference, which Microsoft showed off on stage at Build 2019 once again.In advance of its Microsoft Build developer conference May 6-8 in Seattle, Microsoft has announced new cloud-based cognitive services that will benefit business users, such as transcribing meetings and extracting text from forms.To read this article in full, please click here