Microsoft's acquisition of Semantic Machines is all about AI

Thinking about its work with Cortana, Microsoft's recently declared securing of Semantic Machines Inc bodes well.

Reported Sunday, Microsoft said the buy was intended to support not simply Cortana but rather social chatbots like XiaoIce, which has had up to 30 billion discussions crosswise over China, Japan, the United States, India and Indonesia.

Semantic Machines Inc depicts itself as an organization building up the key innovation to enable people to collaborate normally with PCs. It's driven by tech business visionary Dan Roth, UC Berkeley teacher Dan Klein and Stanford University educator Percy Liang.

"With the securing of Semantic Machines, we will build up a conversational AI focal point of perfection in Berkeley to push forward the limits of what is conceivable in dialect interfaces," said David Ku, CVP and boss innovation officer of Microsoft AI and Research.

"Consolidating Semantic Machines' innovation with Microsoft's own AI propels, we intend to convey capable, common and more gainful client encounters that will take conversational processing to another level."