Comics rely on Microsoft AI to win Laugh Battle Royale

>> Seth Herzog is here
and I'm ready to get crazy in
the laugh battle here at
the National Comedy Center.
>> But the AI technology.
I'm just excited to be
part of the future.
>> Let's play. Ready?
>> Happiness detector.
I've been waiting
my whole life for that.
>> Where do baby cows eat?
The calf-eteria.
>> Now, we have for round two.
Janelle James versus
the very bearded Nick Thune.
>> The AI won't pick
up any laughs from me
because they don't call me
cold blooded for nothing.
>> I'm Nick Thune and I
want to thank Microsoft.
Because I'm going to win.
>> Very close battle.
They blocked each other,
they laughed at each
other a little bit.
I think Nick's beard kind
of helped him.
>> I'm Jordan Carlos,
Corinne, I like Corrine.
>> I'm going to have
a great time doing this.
I went to the dermatologists
recently and she was like,
"Your skin looks so young."
I was like, "Yeah,
I've never smiled."
>> In our championship finale,
the two very funny men.
Try not to laugh at other people
because they're
very self involved.
>> I lost three days already.
>> Nick Thune just won
this round of laugh battle.
>> You need a fix.
>> We are number one, all of us.

Comics go head to head to head at the Laugh Battle

>> Seth Herzog is here
and I'm ready to get crazy in
the laugh battle here at
the National Comedy Center.
>> But the AI technology.
I'm just excited to be
part of the future.
>> Let's play. Ready?
>> Happiness detector.
I've been waiting
my whole life for that.
>> Where do baby cows eat?
The calf-eteria.
>> Now, we have for round two.
Janelle James versus
the very bearded Nick Thune.
>> The AI won't pick
up any laughs from me
because they don't call me
cold blooded for nothing.
>> I'm Nick Thune and I
want to thank Microsoft.
Because I'm going to win.
>> Very close battle.
They blocked each other,
they laughed at each
other a little bit.
I think Nick's beard kind
of helped him.
>> I'm Jordan Carlos,
Corinne, I like Corrine.
>> I'm going to have
a great time doing this.
I went to the dermatologists
recently and she was like,
"Your skin looks so young."
I was like, "Yeah,
I've never smiled."
>> In our championship finale,
the two very funny men.
Try not to laugh at other people
because they're
very self involved.
>> I lost three days already.
>> Nick Thune just won
this round of laugh battle.
>> You need a fix.
>> We are number one, all of us.

Connected Field Service

And you're really part
of a revolution here.
>> We are at Hannover Messe 2018
at the amazing Microsoft booth.
>> We are bringing the old
manufacturing industry
into the new age
of digital transformation.
It's not the future,
it's here, you can touch it.
>> The scale of this event
is enormous.
Lots of energy and
questions and curiosity.
Tons of customers and
partners interacting with our
solutions and our technology.
It's very much about
relationships.
So we're launching
the connected field service.
Being able to help customers
in a unique way that
manufacturers haven't been
able to do in the past.
>> What we traditionally had was
a break fix scenario.
Where something gets broken and
you send somebody to fix it.
In this scenario, the whole
connective experience is about
having proactive and predictive
maintenance situation.
The sensors will let you
know there's a problem
with the machine.
Software takes the sensor data,
puts it in Azure IoT Cloud.
The Azure IoT Cloud
connects to Dynamics 365,
which is where the work
order's created.
The entire process is
streamlined and automated.
>> Then what we're doing is
bringing together a number
of technologies that help
a manufacturing organization
be able to remotely monitor,
predict and
solve problems before they
become critical issues.
Manufacturing continues
to push the envelope
on what's possible from
a technology standpoint.
And as a technology provider,
that helps us be better.
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Cortana attracts developers to build skills

AI is not the future anymore,
it's here.
We can use it.
"Hi Ariel, you have two urgent
messages."
"It will take you two minutes to
complete."
We developers need to follow the
stream.
We need to develop what people
need.
You push a button and
publish that skill on
Cortana's skill store, and
it's boom available.
It's phenomenal.
Cortana has the kind of reach
that no other platform has.
You've got millions of devices
and user that are leveraging
Cortana to do their day-to-day
job.
Technology-wise and support-wise
it is really amazing right now.
By partnering with Microsoft,
there's nothing more which a
small company can dream about.
Cortana is unique in the way
that it's a hybrid platform.
You get a visual experience and
it engages all the senses.
When using Bot Framework you are
writing the code once.
You can now publish it to many
different channels.
Microsoft understand developers
and technology.
If they're happy building on
your platform they can focus on
the things that they're really
good at.
It's very easy to go from
an idea,
to building a Cortana skill
very, very quickly.
Voice recognition, natural
language processing,
this is all on the cutting edge.
It's good to be here early
learning about it together
with our partners.
What really excited me about
this partnership is the ability
to take this dream and make it a
reality.
It's all just a new space that
we're all learning and growing
in, and Cortana skills will
continue to evolve and I'm
really excited to see where it's
going to go.

Chief Gaming Officer Experience (extended)

[MUSIC]
>> Microsoft flew us
out here from Chicago.
Put us up in a hotel.
I had no expectations what this all.
I knew it's going to
be something unlike
anything I've ever
been through before.
This is the biggest thing I've
ever won. This is awesome.
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Well, I've got to meet
Jen Taylor who's the
voice of Cortana from Halo,
which is a total fanboy
moment for me because
that's Halo is what got me into
gaming in the first place.
>> Cortana, what's the weather?
>> It's clear and beautiful.
>> Okay.
>> I got to meet Major Nelson
this morning, Larry Hryb.
I've watched bunch of the stuff,
history, watched the award
shows, and MNA's done it.
It's really a chip to meet
Major Nelson in person.
>> How is everybody
doing on Mixer today?
Well, we got a little
something special
for you. You're going to love this.
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>> I get Xbox Live for life,
Game Pass for life as well.
It's a really incredible gift.
So, I got to take a tour
of the Microsoft Archives.
I'm a huge history nerd,
so it's cool to see all of
the stuff that has been
accumulated over time.
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Saw the original prototype for
the controller for the Xbox.
There's all kinds of things I never
would have expected to
see that they archived.
We had lunch with Xbox executives,
Mike Baugh and Bryan Coles,
that was pretty exciting.
It's super nice to know that
they game just almost
as much as we do.
I got a bunch of stuff
at Microsoft Store.
Then, I walk through there,
bought a couple of controllers.
Get us three new headsets,
and all kinds of Xbox swag, really.
I played Halo as a kid and had
gone onto college student.
Now, to be able to be where
it is made is incredible.
Took a tour of the Halo museum.
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They have a bunch of
promotional stuff,
bunch of stuff that's
been used in commercials.
Day has been amazing,
it's been exciting and fantastic,
and overwhelming,
all rolled into one.
I'm all about Microsoft,
all about Xbox,
and just been an Xbox member
for 12 years now.
I'm an Xbox fanboy for life.
You stay tuned to
the Microsoft Rewards Team.
Anyone that I got to meet today,
Major Nelson, Jen Taylor,
it's incredible.
Probably one of the best
experience of my life.
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