Microsoft, contradicting beliefs of Java developers responding to a survey, said they don't need to learn AI, master machine learning, or switch to Python to build intelligent, production-ready ...

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.

Microsoft announced a new educational initiative called "Java and AI for Beginners: A Practical Video Series for Java," offering a structured introduction for Java developers interested in generative ...