Microsoft swallows up AI language biz Maluuba

Cynicism... rising

'literate machines that can think, reason and communicate like humans'

After perusing the news while in a bad mood, I've come to the conclusion that that is AS*, not AI.

Computers are built on logic and concise communication , let'em use it.

*Artificial Stupidity

Being bought by Microsoft isn't always the route to success. Even if EEE wasn't the intent there's also the Nokia fate.

Stop the Presses. Here be Hot Stuff Zero Nonsense with its EMPowering Beauty lies in your Disbelief

The world as you may know it, and as it is presented to you by mass multi media moguls and IT systems, is already fundamentally and radically changed and still changing, for change allows perfect enough security, by that and those communicating as if machines, with humans observing and commenting on the results in their stupendously simple spectator role.

Is that really the best that they can do?

I'm genuinely surprised this deep learning is so weak. Perhaps they aren't really that bleeding edge -

Firstly, it's fairly easy to select between four given answers. The underlying signal-to-noise feeding into the Bayesian probabilities can be terrible and still give the correct answer.

Secondly - it's easy to answer "what did Ron do", because the text contains the explicit answer if not in the correct word order.

A proper test would be "who did Ron sit next to, and what did he sit next to." Then it needs to understand concepts of location, that collapsed is sort of a synonym for sit, and the difference between people and things.

And they expect it to run on Windows?