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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

By : Chris Seferlis, Christopher Nellis, Andy Roberts
Book Image

Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

By: Chris Seferlis, Christopher Nellis, Andy Roberts

Overview of this book

Azure Cognitive Services and OpenAI are a set of pre-built artificial intelligence (AI) solution APIs that can be leveraged from existing applications, allowing customers to take advantage of Microsoft’s award-winning Vision, Speech, Text, Decision, and GPT-4 AI capabilities. With Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services, you’ll work through industry-specific examples of implementations to get a head-start in your production journey. You’ll begin with an overview of the categorization of Azure Cognitive Services and the benefits of embracing AI solutions for practical business applications. After that, you’ll explore the benefits of using Azure Cognitive Services to optimize efficiency and improve predictive capabilities. Then, you’ll learn how to leverage Vision capabilities for quality control, Form Recognizer to streamline supply chain nuances, language understanding to improve customer service, and Cognitive Search for next-generation knowledge-mining solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement various Cognitive Services solutions that will help you enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience at your organization. You’ll also be well equipped to automate mundane tasks by reaping the full potential of OpenAI.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Ocean Smart – an AI Success Story
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Part 2: Deploying Next-Generation Knowledge Mining Solutions with Azure Cognitive Search
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Part 3: Other Cognitive Services That Will Help Your Company Optimize Operations

Deploying a Content Moderator

Today, organizations can connect to customers, vendors, partners, and more with agility like never before. We commonly deploy applications that allow our customers to quickly contact us and research common challenges through the likes of chatbots, online forums, social media, company blogs, and numerous other outlets. The flexibility offered by these outlets certainly provides us with the opportunity to enhance the journey a customer takes with Ocean Smart, but also provides more surface for disgruntled customers and employees to express their dissatisfaction. That dissatisfaction can be expressed in the form of negative discussions and – worse – lewd or inappropriate content.

For these reasons and more, Ocean Smart has enabled the powerful Content Moderator Cognitive service to provide a screening mechanism to make the best attempt at avoiding any of that inappropriate material from ever being seen by its customers. In this chapter, we...