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Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

By : Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

By: Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak

Overview of this book

Implementing Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cloud had not been possible earlier due to the lack of processing power and storage. However, Azure has created ML and AI services that are easy to implement in the cloud. Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure teaches you how to perform advanced ML projects in the cloud in a cost-effective way. The book begins by covering the benefits of ML and AI in the cloud. You will then explore Microsoft’s Team Data Science Process to establish a repeatable process for successful AI development and implementation. You will also gain an understanding of AI technologies available in Azure and the Cognitive Services APIs to integrate them into bot applications. This book lets you explore prebuilt templates with Azure Machine Learning Studio and build a model using canned algorithms that can be deployed as web services. The book then takes you through a preconfigured series of virtual machines in Azure targeted at AI development scenarios. You will get to grips with the ML Server and its capabilities in SQL and HDInsight. In the concluding chapters, you’ll integrate patterns with other non-AI services in Azure. By the end of this book, you will be fully equipped to implement smart cognitive actions in your models.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

What is a bot?

A chatbot, or bot, is an application that allows you to have a human-like dialogue via text, image, or speech. A bot can be integrated into either a web app or a mobile app. Different applications, such as Facebook Messenger, Kik, WeChat, or Skype, support various types of bots that might help you to find answers to a specific question, book an appointment at a salon, or book a table at a restaurant. Chatting with a bot should be like chatting with a customer care agent or a friend. Here is an example bot that is helping to answer questions about the weather inside Facebook Messenger. This bot was built by Microsoft, and is known as the Zo bot:

A bot can be deployed in the cloud to help scale the capacity of how much traffic it can handle based on user demand. To give you an idea of how easy it is to create intelligent and powerful bots, we will create a bot...