The future of Cortana goes through the acquisition of new skills and for this announces the Cortana Intelligence Institute

Yesterday we saw how Satya Nadella boasted of Cortana's strength for the future, especially considering that Amazon's Alexa now plays at home. Fear? Who said fear? Perhaps no one, at least from doors to the outside but inside the sensations may be different.

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This may be the reason why from Redmond have announced the creation of a series of collaborations in the form of alliances that seek to make that Cortana acquires new capabilities, something essential to be able to be someone within the virtual assistant landscape."

In this sense, Microsoft is committed to collaboration with other entities and companies and as a result of this they have created the Cortana Intelligence Institute. This is a collaboration between Microsoft Research, Cortana Research, and RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia, to help Cortana learn new skills.

This is about making it so that when users see Cortana they don't get the idea that Cortana is only good for performing basic queries Cortana is not It should only serve to know the weather, the traffic or the agenda that we have planned for that day. They want Cortana to acquire new capabilities to interact and at the same time to acquire a more natural language.

It's about helping Cortana to be more proactive and aware of the context she's in when interacting with the user

And it is that as much as they brag about the sources from which Cortana can drink (Windows 10, Xbox One…) the truth is that today it is not competition for Amazon and Alexa Although she doesn't want to admit it, Nadella knows that Alexa has come a long way right now, having a large number of skills that allow her to interact with a large number of applications and devices.

It remains to be seen if with these types of associations Cortana will be able to reach the ecosystem of skills that Alexa boasts in a way that seems really hard because of the advantage they have achieved from Amazon, an advantage to which must be added the depth they have achieved among users, at least in the United States, where the Amazon Echo are legion.

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