Project Oxford is a set of APIs that let's us, the developers, harness the power of machine learning without having the know how to implement from scratch. Project Oxford provides services focused on Vision, Emotion, Speech, and more and exposes it through REST API as well as client SDKs.
the intelligence exhibited by machines or software
how to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behavior
include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, natural language processing (communication), perception
human intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens sapiens—"can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.“
IRobot, Ex Machina, etc.
evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence
Where artificial intelligence meets Statistics
Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed
How do we tell a computer to recognize tree?
Give it characteristics of a tree explicitly?
Give it a set of millions of tree images and let it learn from them
Applications
Computer Vision/OCR
Credit Card Fraud
Netflix/Amazon recommendations
evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence
Where artificial intelligence meets Statistics
Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed
How do we tell a computer to recognize tree?
Give it characteristics of a tree explicitly?
Give it a set of millions of tree images and let it learn from them
Applications
Computer Vision/OCR
Credit Card Fraud
Netflix/Amazon recommendations
Microsoft and Machine Learning
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2886132/machine-learning/how-machine-learning-ate-microsoft.html
“I honestly can't think of any recent product development that Microsoft has been involved in that hasn't involved machine learning,”
Speech to text and text to speech in UWP
Cortana language recognition
Skype translator
Xbox voice with Kinect
Clutter in office 365
Onenote handwriting to text
Don’t have to be a data sciences, don’t have to have a background in Machine Learning
Code Snippets – C#, Java, JS, Objective C, PHP, Python, Ruby
MLaaS – Machine Learning as a Service
SDKs also available
UWP has Emotion, Speech, Face available
Couldn’t get Vision package to work