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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

The lessons learned and returns on investments

The book you have just finished reading is chock-full of discussions about how to ensure you maximize your return on investment and total cost of ownership when it comes to deploying Cognitive Services. We have also attempted to be as transparent as possible when discussing some of the limitations of the technologies as well. The intention of this transparency is to hopefully save you some time, money, and energy on a project that would ultimately fail, due to a technological gap or lack of valid reasoning. We have also provided you with some of the decision points Ocean Smart faced when evaluating the total cost of ownership. Think of these points as your “buyer beware” guidance. The last thing you want is to provide an inaccurate estimate for what a service will actually cost to deploy and maintain to your boss, so be sure to pay attention to these sections and start slow. Starting slow, measuring results, and estimating...