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Microsoft touts SQL Server 2017 as 'first RDBMS with built-in AI'
Microsoft is due to announce what it's calling "the first RDBMS with built-in AI". In other words, a community technology preview of SQL Server 2017 with additional support for R and – for the first time – Python. Expected to be announced Wednesday during Microsoft Data Amp, the preview release will introduce in-database …
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Wednesday 19th April 2017 16:15 GMT Brian Miller
Pre-trained neural network
"The company claims SQL Server includes "built-in AI" as it introduces pre-trained neural network models for sentiment analysis..."
How much analysis is need for what people think about Vista and Windows 8? (Yes, I switched over to Linux as my main OS when my new laptop came with Windows 8. Yes, I upgraded it to Windows 10, the nine that is not nine, but I'm sticking with Linux.)
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Wednesday 19th April 2017 16:48 GMT Mage
Ha Ha
Only for a MS definition of AI.
The company that brought you:
The racist Chatbot
The Ribbon.
Autorun
OLE / COM /DCOM
Active X in a browser
All the rubbish versions of Windows before 3.1
Putting GDI into Kernel for slight speed up of games/video on NT4.0 (less speed up than a new PC), so graphics drivers for printers / screens could BSOD what had been a stable OS
Windows ME, Vista, Win8.x, Win 10
Clippy
and much more stupidity
Maybe it's AI for cows or mares. Do MS know what AI actually is?
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Wednesday 19th April 2017 19:38 GMT Captain DaFt
Re: Ha Ha
"Do MS know what AI actually is?"
Considering their history with their OS and software I'd say they think AI means "All Inclusive".
Maybe it was just a fever dream after trying to use it once, but I'd swear that Word has an option for sorting socks somewhere in that ribbon thingy.
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