Microsoft offers various tools and services to build and deploy AI applications. These applications are designed to augment human capabilities and improve customer experiences. You can use Microsoft's AI platform, which provides powerful, loosely-coupled, and interoperable services. Some of these services include natural language understanding, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, image understanding, and machine learning. Here are some examples of AI applications that can be built using Microsoft's AI platform:
- In healthcare, doctors can use AI to personalize treatment and maximize patient outcomes for eye surgeries.
- In manufacturing, AI can be used to detect manufacturing defects and predict machine failure.
- In retail, AI can be used to provide a better shopping experience for customers, such as in Lowe's AI-powered kitchen remodeling design experience.
To start building AI applications with Microsoft, you can use tools like Azure Bot Service and QnA Maker to create intelligent bots that can interact with users on multiple channels. You can also use Azure Machine Learning and the cognitive APIs to build and deploy intelligent applications that mimic human reasoning. With Azure, you can build intelligent applications faster using the tools and technologies you already know and deploy them anywhere.
References:
- Artificial Intelligence - Getting Started with Microsoft AI by Joseph Sirosh; 2017: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2017/connect/artificial-intelligence-getting-started-with-microsoft-ai
- What are AI applications?: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/innovate/best-practices/ai-applications