What Is AI

What is AI?
Simply put, AI is software that imitates human behaviors and capabilities.

Key workloads include:
 Machine learning - This is often the foundation for an AI system,

and is the way we "teach" a computer model to make predictions
and draw conclusions from data.
 Computer vision - Capabilities within AI to interpret the world
visually through cameras, video, and images.
 Natural language processing - Capabilities within AI for a
computer to interpret written or spoken language, and respond in
kind.
 Document intelligence - Capabilities within AI that deal with
managing, processing, and using high volumes of data found in
forms and documents.
 Knowledge mining - Capabilities within AI to extract information
from large volumes of often unstructured data to create a
searchable knowledge store.
 Generative AI - Capabilities within AI that create original content
in a variety of formats including natural language, image, code,
and more.
Understand machine learning
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Machine Learning is the foundation for most AI solutions. Since the 1950's,
researchers, often known as data scientists, have worked on different
approaches to AI. Most modern applications of AI have their origins in
machine learning, a branch of AI that combines computer science and
mathematics.
Let's start by looking at a real-world example of how machine learning can

be used to solve a difficult problem.
Sustainable farming techniques are essential to maximize food production

while protecting a fragile environment. The Yield, an agricultural technology
company based in Australia, uses sensors, data, and machine learning to
help farmers make informed decisions related to weather, soil, and plant
conditions
How machine learning works

So how do machines learn?
The answer is, from data. In today's world, we create huge volumes of data
as we go about our everyday lives. From the text messages, emails, and
social media posts we send to the photographs and videos we take on our
phones, we generate massive amounts of information. More data still is
created by millions of sensors in our homes, cars, cities, public transport
infrastructure, and factories.
Data scientists can use all of that data to train machine learning models that
can make predictions and inferences based on the relationships they find in
the data.
Machine learning models try to capture the relationship between data. For
example, suppose an environmental conservation organization wants
volunteers to identify and catalog different species of wildflower using a
phone app. The following animation shows how machine learning can be
used to enable this scenario.
1. A team of botanists and scientists collect data on wildflower

samples.
2. The team labels the samples with the correct species.
3. The labeled data is processed using an algorithm that finds
relationships between the features of the samples and the labeled
species.
4. The results of the algorithm are encapsulated in a model.
5. When new samples are found by volunteers, the model can
identify the correct species label.
Approaches to AI have advanced to complete tasks of much greater

complexity. These complex models form the basis of AI capabilities.
Machine learning in Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure provides the Azure Machine Learning service - a cloud-
based platform for creating, managing, and publishing machine learning
models. Azure Machine Learning Studio offers multiple authoring
experiences such as:
 Automated machine learning: this feature enables non-experts

to quickly create an effective machine learning model from data.
 Azure Machine Learning designer: a graphical interface
enabling no-code development of machine learning solutions.
 Data metric visualization: analyze and optimize your
experiments with visualization.
 Notebooks: write and run your own code in managed Jupyter
Notebook servers that are directly integrated in the studio.
Understand computer vision

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Computer Vision is an area of AI that deals with visual processing. Let's

explore some of the possibilities that computer vision brings.
The Seeing AI app is a great example of the power of computer vision.

Designed for the blind and low vision community, the Seeing AI app
harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby
people, text and objects.
View the following video to learn more about Seeing AI.

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What is AI?

Simply put, AI is software that imitates human behaviors and capabilities.

 Machine learning - This is often the foundation for an AI system,

Let's start by looking at a real-world example of how machine learning can

Sustainable farming techniques are essential to maximize food production

How machine learning works

1. A team of botanists and scientists collect data on wildflower

Approaches to AI have advanced to complete tasks of much greater

Machine learning in Microsoft Azure

 Automated machine learning: this feature enables non-experts

Understand computer vision

Computer Vision is an area of AI that deals with visual processing. Let's

The Seeing AI app is a great example of the power of computer vision.

View the following video to learn more about Seeing AI.

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