Microsoft's wild vision for the future puts conversations at the heart of computing

Microsoft's AI chatbot Tay may have grabbed headlines last week when it went rogue on Twitter, but Microsoft has far bigger plans for its bots. At the Build developer conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the company's grand vision of "conversation as a platform" — making bots that understand natural language the next big way to use computers. "[It's] a simple concept that's very powerful in its impact," said Nadella, adding: "We think this can have as profound an impact as the previous platform shifts have had."

By this, Nadella means that conversations could follow the graphical user interface, the mouse, and touch, as the next big way we interact with our computers. Microsoft is not thinking small here.

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