Microsoft Cognitive Services hosts the company's hosted artificial intelligence algorithms. Currently, the company has announced advances in several cognitive service tools, including Microsoft Custom Vision Service, Face API and Bing Entity Search.
Joseph Sirosh, who leads Microsoft's artificial intelligence efforts, defined Microsoft's cognitive services in a corporate blog post announcing improvements, such as "a collection of cloud-hosted APIs that allow developers to Add simple AI capabilities for vision, speech, language, knowledge and research into applications, devices and platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows. These services are separate from other Azure AI services designed for more practical developers. DIY.
The idea is to put this kind of advanced artificial intelligence tools within reach of scientists, developers and any other interested party without having to lift heavy loads to build models and get results with the countless phases of test usually involved. types of exercises
For starters, the company moves the Custom Vision Service from free preview to paid preview, which is the last step before it is generally available. Sirosh writes that this service helps developers easily train a classifier with their own data, export the models and integrate these custom classifiers directly into their applications, and run them offline in real time on iOS, Android and many other devices.
Andy Hickl, who works in the cognitive services group as group program director, says the tool is designed to help companies identify similar entities automatically, recognizing not only that an image is a dog. but it is a specific type of dog or dog that belongs to a particular person.
The Face API, usually available today, automatically identifies a specific person from a large number of people. With today's version, the tool allows developers to create groups of up to one million people. Hickl says it's important because so far, many facial recognition algorithms could only recognize a handful of faces, useful as far as possible, but not really scalable like that, he says.
Finally, the Bing Entity Search algorithm allows developers to insert Bing search results into any application. For example, you can retrieve search results from any tool that is restricted by a Bing entity, such as an image or a website. This tool is usually available today.