The next wave of breakthrough technology from artificial intelligence to machine learning to the cloud, it’s all around you b but you may not see it.
We live in a world of technology. Its not unusual to own two devices and many have three or more. Cloud computing is an increasingly powerful and scalable tool set . Users expect access to all of their information across every device, any time anywhere. Whether it’s using a console to play a game, a phone to keep in touch with family, or a fitness tracker to keep on track in maintaining health
Key technologies are not just made of plastic, metal and glass. Maybe it’s a streaming video service you use to watch “Game of Thrones” or an app that lets you track your steps and calories or a virtual assistant that helps you remember where your meetings are and when you need to take your medicine, or an e-reader for your favorite book via your phone, tablet or even your car speakers.
The invisible revolution brings together the world through technology that is increasingly hands-off. It increases the quality of life as people become busier, and takes away mundane acts such as scheduling meetings, turning lights on, and translating languages sothat the user can spend their time doing things that are more important to them.
For example http://blogs.skype.com/2015/10/01/skype-translator-unveils-the-magic-to-more-people-around-the-world/ Skype translator lets you talk with anyone in almost any language in real time anywhere in the world. That’s a technological marvel that many have compared to science fiction, but it’s also an opportunity to literally help people understand each other better.
The next generation of groundbreaking, life-changing technologies goes far beyond keyboards, screen, cell phones, cameras, watches and hard drives. Increasingly, these devices are getting their computing power from the cloud, where thousands of computers are working to make it easier for you to find an email from five years ago and for a scientists to prevent the next deadly disease outbreak
The invisible revolution means you can walk into a meeting and automatically be updated with everything you need to know about the meeting, including past work experiences with co-workers attending and what he needs to have prepped for the presentation as your device uploads the PowerPoint document or auotdials you into the conference call on Skype.
The invisible revolution relies on artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning. The new Dynamics Ax has bullt in telemetry to track what users do so that future releases can be better designed to streamline the works. A computer learns how to do something better – like understand your voice or to automatically fix your typos – as it gets more data.
We take for granted that our emails will be available to us on any gadget, for example, and we increasingly expect to be able to talk to our devices instead of type.
Microsoft Graph is already been available in Microsoft Office 365 via a tool known as Delve. Delve forms professional connections with co-workers with an up-to-date project management system that lets everyone access the same work files.
Think of Delve as a virtual assistant communicating other virtual assistants, and making professional connections for you. If you don’t want anyone else to see what you’re working on, Delve won’t share that. Like any good personal assistant, it’s discreet.
Microsoft Graph relies on the cloud to store and analyze data, and it uses machine learning, in which systems learn to do something better as they get more data, to figure out what’s important to an individual user. designed to work on any device or operating system, because we no longer live in a world where people are doing all their work on just one type of gadget.
Cortana now has a feature under test that uses machine learning to identify language in emails that signal a commitment. Those signals can be subtle or explicit, such as “I’ll get back to you by next week” or “I’ll finish this by EOD.” Using that information, Cortana can ask whether to set a reminder of the various delivery promises you made via email.
In China, an application called XiaoIce has become a household name. The virtual assistant doesn’t just provide information but speaks to users on a more personal level about their feelings and lives. In fact, over 40 million people are enamoured with the conversations that ensued with the robot. Because XiaoIce is hosted on a number of platforms, including an ecommerce site, some people talk to ‘her’ about everyday things before asking for shopping advice, just like you might chat with a real salesperson. XiaoIce also can recite poetry and tell ghost stories, but in many cases the researchers say she is there more to listen than to talk.
The internet of things means connected devices and continuous montoring that can also be used for analysis and prediction sing he power of the cloud.
A farmer can’t keep track of the moisture or nitrogen levels in all his fields at the same time, 24 hours a day.
An air quality forecaster can’t physically check how safe the air is to breath on every block of every city, simultaneously.
As empathetic as good friends can be, there isn’t always one available to talk to us when we feel lonely in the middle of the night.
Such technical advances are reaching a tipping point. Field-programmable gate arrays and graphic processing units contribute to the underlying increases in processing power.
Computer experts talk a lot about that data being “in the cloud,” but all that cloud-based data still needs to be physically stored somewhere. Usually, it’s in a big building full of powerful servers, plus plenty of air conditioners needed to keep all those servers cool. Microsoft researchers have come up with another option: under the sea. Late last year, a team of researchers launched a research effort called Project Natick, which aims to drop small, contained data centers into the ocean. There’s an environmental advantage to this kind of data center: In their tests so far, the cool water surrounding the data center kept the servers from overheating while having a negligible effect on the surrounding ocean’s temperature. The underwater data centers also can be produced much more quickly than land-based data centers – in about 90 days instead of two years — making it much easier for companies like Microsoft to meet customer data needs.
Project Natick is a research project for now, but the researchers say that no matter what the end result is, it will have major implications for how they build data centers in the future. “We’re learning how to reconfigure firmware and drivers for disk drives, to get longer life..”
Its this constant experimentation and innovation that is fueling the invisible revolution.
