What are the different types of AI models?
There are many types of AI models available depending on exactly what we are trying to achieve. At a high level, these can be broken down into the data types that the models work with:
- Text
- Documents
- Structured data
- Images
A full breakdown of the model types can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/model-types
Each of the data types, however, has different AI models that can be used with them. As an example, the documents data type allows you to utilize key models such as text recognition, document processing, business-card reading, and receipt processing – in essence, extracting data from a physical document of some kind.
Image-based models could use object recognition to try to automatically identify items within an image, or optical character recognition (OCR) to extract textual data from pictures.
There are some great use cases that you can explore, but first...