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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

By : Chris Seferlis , Christopher Nellis, Andy Roberts
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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

4.9 (12)
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

Understanding the drawbacks of traditional data collection systems

As previously described, the proliferation of data began in the early 1980s due to the rapid adoption of computer workstations within organizations. Material requirements planning (MRP) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems came onto the scene and provided significant business value to organizations needing to centrally manage day-to-day operations. These systems used a database developed to house data flowing through the systems and then archived this when no longer relevant. Word processing and spreadsheet applications also helped organizations to create documents outlining planning, budgeting, financial, and other types of details about the company.

If we examine these systems more closely, we can see that they were severely limited by the compute resources available to run efficiently on the hardware they were deployed to. Also, the limitations of the software compilers and languages these systems were...

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