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When the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, Microsoft abandoned the presidency of the Council for a new role of "Technology Advisor", it was hired to care for a third of his time on giant-related projects technology. So it can now spend his time doing what he wants, to the point that Bill Gates seems currently working on a mysterious project at Microsoft named "Personal Agent".
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He teases the project during a session Ask Me Anything (questions / answers) on Reddit when asked how technology will evolve over the coming decades. "There will be more progress over the next 30 years that what we have seen so far " , said Gates. " Even in the many current problems, on topics such as vision, speech understanding, and translation, and all will be resolved very excellent in the future. The tasks of mechanical robots like picking fruit or the ability to move a patient at the hospital will be resolved. Since the computers and robots will reach a level of capacity to see and be mobile will be easy for them, then they will be widely used, " he continues.
Personal Agent: the super Cortana
Then it evokes a project he is working with Microsoft, called "Personal Agent". This one should remember everything, it should help us to go back (?) And find some things, while helping us to choose the things we want to pay attention. It states: "The idea that you have to find and search for applications, and each trying to tell you what is new, is simply not an effective model. The agent will solve this problem " . He revealed that it would be a multi-platform product and will be available on Windows, iOS and Android.
Although the project is still rather vague contours, this is an ambitious project, but which seems quite feasible given the progress that Apple, Google and Microsoft have of course made in the era of virtual personal assistant in recent years. Cortana is a decent competitor on it, but there's a million ways to improve it . And if the founding father of Microsoft wants to get their hands dirty, it looks exciting.
Gates also said he was optimistic (how to be otherwise) on the helmet HoloLens that the company plans to release Windows 10 later in the year. As a reminder, the application Holo Studio will allow users to create their own holograms, a revolution in the age of technology.
When the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, Microsoft abandoned the presidency of the Council for a new role of "Technology Advisor", it was hired to care for a third of his time on giant-related projects technology. So it can now spend his time doing what he wants, to the point that Bill Gates seems currently working on a mysterious project at Microsoft named "Personal Agent".
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He teases the project during a session Ask Me Anything (questions / answers) on Reddit when asked how technology will evolve over the coming decades. "There will be more progress over the next 30 years that what we have seen so far " , said Gates. " Even in the many current problems, on topics such as vision, speech understanding, and translation, and all will be resolved very excellent in the future. The tasks of mechanical robots like picking fruit or the ability to move a patient at the hospital will be resolved. Since the computers and robots will reach a level of capacity to see and be mobile will be easy for them, then they will be widely used, " he continues.
Then it evokes a project he is working with Microsoft, called "Personal Agent". This one should remember everything, it should help us to go back (?) And find some things, while helping us to choose the things we want to pay attention. It states: "The idea that you have to find and search for applications, and each trying to tell you what is new, is simply not an effective model. The agent will solve this problem " . He revealed that it would be a multi-platform product and will be available on Windows, iOS and Android.
Although the project is still rather vague contours, this is an ambitious project, but which seems quite feasible given the progress that Apple, Google and Microsoft have of course made in the era of virtual personal assistant in recent years. Cortana is a decent competitor on it, but there's a million ways to improve it . And if the founding father of Microsoft wants to get their hands dirty, it looks exciting.
Gates also said he was optimistic (how to be otherwise) on the helmet HoloLens that the company plans to release Windows 10 later in the year. As a reminder, the application Holo Studio will allow users to create their own holograms, a revolution in the age of technology.