“Intelligent behavior is what human do” – Alan Turning, AI pioneer
This is very basic model of why human is intelligent.
We perceive and understand the world around us through our senses and rely on them to interact with each other and the world around us.
We use our eyes to see and recognize objects, people and places.
We use our ears to listen and understand what we are hearing.
We use touch to feel temperature, texture and pressure.
With all these sensory inputs, it passed through our trained intelligence through schools and daily interaction, and produce behaviors that interact with outside world
The basic of computer is like this: data, programmed model, exert behaviours
We use this kind of machine everyday, but now we want to have better people-machine interactions that are more natural.
To create this experience that match how humans naturally interact, we have deep learning services with computer vision, speech, language understanding, knowledge and intelligent search.
Who owns a smartphone? Who owns a fitness tracker?
In these smart devices around you, there is a growing array of sensor capabilities interacts with you like cameras, speakers, microphones and tactile sensors.
These devices have the ability to detect human interactions, understanding emotions through text you sent, photo you took, or audio you recorded, and collectively understand complicated intent of events in your daily life.
Machine is able to understands you and the world around you.
Let’s look at this individual mechanism.
Let’s look at Vision.
Vision – Cognitive Services - Face API
Vision – Cognitive Services – Emotion API
We talk about AI is for augmenting the experience between people-machine interaction.
We talked about using face and emotion recognition.
We even have translation service that bridge the barrier between people speak different languages.
There is still remain a challenge. Machine is still not very good at understand person’s intents, isn’t it?
Or if it does, it doesn’t know what you are talking about like this week’s Billboard award. (domain specific)
Cortana uses natural language, machine learning, and contextual in your environment to provide you with relevant assistance.
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It is about Cortana’s ability to understand what you are saying, and her ability to learn about you over time.
This Language Understanding Intelligence help you to create a whole new world. I meant literally a whole new world.
Imagine you can create your own language model to interact with humans, with your own set of terminologies and vocabularies, and train it.
Utilizing artificial intelligence services can close the gap in our ability to respond to the world around us
Coding is fun
Coding is more fun when there are tools like AI services readily available to you.
Coding is rewarding when you have a meaningful problem to solve.
I will finish a video to help you think “what is the next big thing for you”