The future of technology in Microsoft's eyes: Big data, artificial intelligence and more natural human-computer interaction

Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Senior advisor Craig Mundie the "Technology Change Future" keynote address at the overcrowded Beihang academic exchange to share Microsoft's views on future trends in technology.

Mundie's speech has roughly three aspects: Big data, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Microsoft believes that with the advent of the big data age, people's various interactions, devices, social networks and sensors are generating massive amounts of data. Artificial intelligence such as machine learning can deal with these data better, and explore the potential value. The Xbox's Kinect 3D somatosensory camera is one of Microsoft's most recent technologies, and Microsoft hopes to continue to innovate through the user interface, allowing people to interact with computing systems through language, gestures and touch.

Mundie also demonstrated the very popular translation of English to Chinese in real time. People who have studied computational theory should know that the "natural language Problem" (Natural Language 處理) is a ai-complete problem, meaning that making computers fully understand human language is equivalent to creating an AI that is as intelligent as humans or smarter than humans. So this is a huge, but also a very important problem, Microsoft study in this regard is also more short-term interest.

In the final question and answer session, there is a classmate of Beihang said he is a little confused about his major, want to ask Microsoft Mundie how to see. By sharing some of your personal experience, Mundie's answer is good. But as a company, Microsoft seems to have lost its initial sense of purpose and direction after popularizing PC PCs. Although the theme of the speech is "the future of Science and Technology", but Microsoft did not describe a very clear vision, but only a general talk about the "big data" and other topics. For the future, Microsoft itself may be just as confused.

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)