{"id":10542,"date":"2014-04-08T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:19","slug":"microsoft-hopes-to-counter-apple-with-ai-driven-invisible-user-interfaces-on-future-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/microsoft-hopes-to-counter-apple-with-ai-driven-invisible-user-interfaces-on-future-devices","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hopes to counter Apple with AI-driven \u2018invisible user interfaces\u2019 on future devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:news@appleinsider.com\">AppleInsider Staff<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline;\" alt=\"Cortana, the Halo character after which Microsoft's Siri competitor is named\" src=\"\" data-original=\"http:\/\/cdn1.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/8889-295-0118-cortana-1-l.png\" \/><br \/> \u201cUser interface started with the command prompt, moved to graphics, then touch, and then gestures,\u201d Microsoft research executive Yoram Yaakobi <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/04\/07\/microsoft-were-in-an-ai-spring\/?mod=WSJBlog\">told<\/a> the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s now moving to invisible UI, where there is nothing to operate. The tech around you understands you and what you want to do. We\u2019re putting this at the forefront of our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the push, dubbed \u201cUI.Next,\u201d Microsoft is pursuing a future in which users do not need to tell their device what to do \u2014 by touching or speaking to it, for instance \u2014 and instead passively consume information that the device has already prepared in anticipation of their needs.<\/p>\n<p>Both Apple and Google have nodded in this direction already, though the technology is far from mature. Apple\u2019s Passbook, for instance, can dynamically surface information like event tickets based on the user\u2019s location, while Google\u2019s Google Now will adjust a user\u2019s schedule based on traffic conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/14\/04\/08\/microsoft-hopes-to-counter-apple-with-ai-driven-invisible-user-interfaces-on-future-devices\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleInsider Staff \u201cUser interface started with the command prompt, moved to graphics, then touch, and then gestures,\u201d Microsoft research executive Yoram Yaakobi told the Wall Street Journal. \u201cIt\u2019s now moving to invisible UI, where there is nothing to operate. The tech around you understands you and what you want to do. We\u2019re putting this at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47150,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions\/47150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}