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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the various configurations of the Personalizer Cognitive Service and some examples of where Personalizer can be used to benefit your organization. Rank and reward configurations will help you to better provide the most relevant options to your users, and with the exploration capability, you can offer less popular choices if they happen to be the best. We also discussed the various machine learning algorithms that are used to help with Reinforcement Learning, to improve the deployed machine learning models built for Personalizer. Finally, we were able to provide an end-to-end solution to customize how items will be ranked and rewarded. Using this logic, you can leverage an API with a simple web interface or Power Apps deployed to your organization, or embed the logic into an existing application to offer better suggestions.

In the next chapter, we will look at how you can improve your customer service team with the Azure Speech service.

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