ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: It’s AI innovations all the way down
In the past fortnight Google and Microsoft have kept the AI ball rolling with announcements of a slew of new products and plans
There are several words and buzz-phrases that tend to be banned in writing about technology, as they are overused to the point of being meaningless. These include “revolutionary” and “game changer”, and the clue to just how meaningless they are usually lies in the fact that they refer to products or services that have not yet entered the market. In short, the hype is more about hope than reality.
The one area where this does not seem to apply is AI, which is a revolution that keeps living up to its hype. In the past two weeks, two of the most valuable companies in the world, Microsoft and Google, hosted conferences where they each opened floodgates of new AI capabilities, products and potentials. ..
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