During the Build 2017 keynote on Wednesday, Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, detailed the company’s plans to bring artificial ...

A few years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made its conversation as a service (CaaS) offerings the centerpiece of its announcements. This year, Microsoft made some solid advancements ...

Microsoft today is introducing the Bot Framework, a new tool in preview to help developers build their own chatbots for their applications. There is also a new bot directory full of sample bots — like ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The future is going to be full of people talking to chatbots, says Microsoft, and it wants to ...

One of the more fascinating trends of this past year was the move to conversational computing. Instead of building complex apps, using bots over services like Facebook’s Messenger or Microsoft’s Skype ...

Microsoft is building an assistant bot that, at least on the surface, looks quite similar to the just-announced Google Assistant bot. Called "Bing Concierge Bot," the coming productivity agent will be ...

The recent victory of Google’s AlphaGo over top-tier Go champion Lee Sedol put artificial intelligence back in the public mind, and Google is at the top on the list of companies most likely to produce ...

Visitors marvel at virtual tour guide intelligent bot solutions such as ‘Dubai Bot’ and KinTrans sign-language translator ‘Hands Can Talk’ 17th October, 2016; Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Microsoft ...

Microsoft’s recently launched, A.I.-powered bot Tay may have embarrassed the company when Twitter users taught the machine how to be racist, but Microsoft hasn’t given up on the future of bot ...

This year, we’ve watched Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, and many other tech giants make acquisitions or launch products to get into the bot business. They’re building bot ecosystems ...