Forget AI, Microsoft is working on "superintelligence" - with medical diagnosis the first area of interest

AI.

• Microsoft’s medical AI already outperforms experts on complex diagnoses
• Human oversight remains Microsoft’s answer to fears of machine autonomy
• The promise of safer superintelligence depends on untested control mechanisms

Microsoft is turning its attention from the race to build general-purpose AI to something it calls Humanist Superintelligence (HSI).