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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

Surveying Our Progress

So, what do you think? Will AI be the technological panacea, where everything is just done for us with a simple command and all the low-skill processes are replaced with robots, or will it lead to the destruction of planet Earth? Before opening the “chaos theory” can of worms, let’s take a look at all the positive outcomes we are now seeing because of AI.

AI is a rapidly growing field that affects a wide range of industries in various ways. From manufacturing to healthcare, AI is being used to automate processes, improve efficiency, and generate new insights. You probably can’t name an industry where AI has not made an incredible impact. We are detecting medical ailments, automating rudimentary processes such as driving, predicting more accurate weather, projecting sales numbers with alarmingly accurate results, and so many more applications. Clearly, AI has many positive impacts, but what about the conversation about how many people...