Salesforce touts AI research progress, beating Google, IBM, and Microsoft on question answering

Publicly traded customer relationship management (CRM) software company Salesforce is today talking up new artificial intelligence (AI) research that’s been conducted by the Salesforce Research division the company formally announced in September, following the MetaMind acquisition.
MetaMind’s team was skilled in a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which involves training artificial neural networks on lots of data and then getting them to make inferences abou