Cybersecurity
Inside the New Microsoft, Where Lie Detection Is a Killer App
To take on Google and Amazon, CEO Nadella is sprinkling machine learning like fairy dust on everything Microsoft touches.
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Jennifer Marsman recently tested a lie detector of her own design on her boss at Microsoft. Do you work for the best company in the world, she asked. Yes. Oops! According to the software, that was probably a fib. Will she get a promotion this year? Yes! This time her manager was most likely telling the truth.
No, Microsoft Corp. isn’t getting into the law-enforcement game. Marsman, 37, is a “principal developer evangelist,” whose job is to tirelessly advocate for machine learning—a form of artificial intelligence that uses data to make predictions about everything from quarterly sales to when a cow will get pregnant.