There’s no doubt that the advent of broadly-available Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers businesses the prospect of increased productivity and accelerated innovation, whilst also enabling society to help solve some of its toughest - and most persistent – challenges: disease, famine, climate control and natural disasters. AI is already delivering tangible economic benefits for many organisations across Asia Pacific. For example, leading global container...
A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person. Researchers in the company’s Asia and U.S. labs said that their system achieved human parity on a commonly used test set of news stories, called newstest2017, which was...
UnionBank partners with Microsoft to pursue blockchain technology in PH Today, digital technology is pushing people, businesses, and governments to rethink the way they work and operate. In the banking and financial industry, fintech companies are disrupting conventional methodologies and introducing innovative products to cater to mobile and connected customers that demand state-of-the-art digital services. Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is in...
Digital age has brought lots of disruptions in our daily lives and in a whole in our economy. With the way things are and three years from now, it is predicted by a new business study produced by Microsoft in partnership with IDC Asia/Pacific and released last February 8, 2018, that digital transformation will add an estimated US$8 billion to the Philippines’ GDP...
If the history of human advancement has taught us one thing it is this: genuine step-change progress does not occur because of a single technology breakthrough, but a combination of multiple complementary factors coming together at the same time. The Industrial Revolution, which began around 1760, was driven by an amalgamation of steam power, improvements in iron production and the development of the...
Microsoft, Ateneo, & ATRIEV host hackathon for the visually-impaired The internet is a very important aspect of our life, as our most common source of information and entertainment, and means of connecting with peers and loved ones. However, most websites are not designed to be used by those with visual impairment, making much of the web inaccessible to those with vision loss. This...
