Microsoft AI Platform

Microsoft AI platform is the ultimate AI tool targeted to make solution to every AI problem easier. Its major components are: Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Toolkit, Cognitive Services & Bot Framework

Azure Machine Learning is an integrated, end-to-end data science and advanced analytics solution. It enables data scientists to prepare data, develop experiments, and deploy models at cloud scale.

The main components of Azure Machine Learning are:

* Azure Machine Learning Workbench
* Azure Machine Learning Experimentation Service
* Azure Machine Learning Model Management Service
* Microsoft Machine Learning Libraries for Apache Spark (MMLSpark Library)
* Visual Studio Code Tools for AI

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit—previously known as CNTK—empowers us to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing uncompromised scaling, speed, and accuracy with commercial-grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms already in use.

Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) are a set of APIs, SDKs and services available to developers to make their applications more intelligent, engaging and discoverable. Microsoft Cognitive Services expands on Microsoft’s evolving portfolio of machine learning APIs and enables developers to easily add intelligent features – such as emotion and video detection; facial, speech and vision recognition; and speech and language understanding – into their applications.

Azure Bot Service speeds up development by providing an integrated environment that's purpose-built for bot development with the Microsoft Bot Framework connectors and BotBuilder SDKs. Developers can get started in seconds with out-of-the-box templates for scenarios including basic, form, language understanding, question and answer, and proactive bots.

In this talk, we will go over each components of Microsoft AI Platform and explain with examples how we are using it to solve our customer problems.

Anusua Trivedi is a Data Scientist at Microsoft’s Cloud AI Platform Team. She works on developing advanced Deep Learning models & AI solutions. She’s an advanced trainer and conducts hands-on deep learning labs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Anusua has held positions with UT Austin and University of Utah. Anusua is a frequent speaker at machine learning and AI conferences.