February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
94 pages
1h 59m
English
Content preview from Building Intelligent Apps with Cognitive APIs
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Chapter 1. What You’ll Learn in This Report
Infusing AI into an application can be difficult and time-consuming. Until recently, you needed both a deep understanding of machine learning and months of development to acquire data, train models, and deploy them at scale. Even then, success was not guaranteed. The path was filled with blockers, gotchas, and pitfalls causing teams to fail to realize value from their AI investments.
Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services remove these challenges. They allow you to infuse your apps, websites, and bots with intelligence using just a few simple lines of code and without a large data science team. With these services you can quickly create applications that hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason. These capabilities will unlock new experiences and applications for your business. Imagine an app that allows users to take a photograph of a menu and then automatically translate it into another language and retrieve reviews, pictures, and relevant recipes. Or a chatbot that can talk with your users in a customized voice that matches your brand. Imagine infusing this chatbot with even more intelligence, such as being able to recognize pictures of your products, identify any defects, and streamline the return process. These are just a few of the AI-powered features companies are building using the Cognitive Services.
Even companies with deep expertise in AI turn to these services rather than creating their own. When Uber looked at ways to ...
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