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AI Builder
Deep Dive
Power BI User Group |
Washington, DC

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🦄 Technology consultant @
🦄 Co-organizer
🦄 MSFT BizApps MVP
🦄 Dutchy
🦄 Book nerd
🦄 Lover of all things Unicorn
🦄 2 cats – 1 husband
Rebekka Aalbers
#PowerAddict
#LessCodeMorePower

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Target audience
You want to know more about
AI Builder
You have (some) experience with
the tools in the Power Platform
(CDS, Apps, Automation)

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Goal
Understand How, Why, and
When to use AI Builder

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Agenda

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Why & What
AI Builder

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But first!
Let’s generate some demo data!
• Tweet something using #AIBuilder
• Use a language you like (Latin script)

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Why do I like the
Power Platform
tools
– including AI
Builder?
Evolved to become a Consultant at a
Microsoft Partner
Landed by accident in the
IT-department of an end customer
Started out as business user

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Guided point-and-click AI
applications
AI for every skill level Embedded within the Microsoft Power
Platform and Dynamics 365

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2 Model types
Custom models
Prebuilt models

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Select the model

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Step by Step Guidance in the UI
ADD YOUR DATA TRAIN THE
MODEL
CHECK THE
PERFORMANCE
PUBLISH & USE

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Prediction - GA
Determine the likelihood of specific business outcomes – Boolean (Yes/No – True/False)
Input: Data in 1 CDS entity
Output: prediction written back into prediction field in CDS
Use automatic schedule in CDS and in Power Automate
Specifics: Uses CDS Entity
Only 2 outcome possibilities (Yet!)
Data requirements: Minimum of 50 records in total and 10 records historical outcome for each class.
Best result with at least 1000 records.

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Object detection - Preview
Build an AI model that recognizes and counts visual objects.​
Output: Name and count of detected objects
Use in Power Apps Canvas & Power Automate
Specifics: JPG, png or BMP – max 6 MB
Data requirements: minimum of 15 images per object – preferably 50 or more.

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Lighting Object size
Camera angle Background
Use diverse images

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Text classification- Preview
Build an application that reviews, tags, and classifies large volumes of text to track sentiment,
improve customer experiences, and mine valuable insights.​
Output: List of tags with certainty score in separate entity
Auto generated on schedule in CDS & used in Power Automate
Specifics: Uses CDS Entity
Languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Data requirements: Text and tags in text fields in same entity – All tags in one field using a delimeter
Max 5000 characters per text item - Minimum of 50 text items per tag.

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Form processing - Preview
Read, extract, and process data from scans, emails, PDFs, and images.​
Output: Extracted key-value pairs and table data.
Use in Power Apps Canvas & Power Automate
Specifics: JPG, png or PDF – max 4 MB – Latin alphabet
High quality images – between 530 x 100 and 4200 x 4200 pixels
Data requirements: 5 – 10 sample documents with the same layout.
Must contain keys above or to the left of the value.

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Éric Sauvé
@ZePowerDiver
http://bit.ly/AIBuilderWW

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Recent updates

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Recent updates
Manually enter objects
for Object detection
New fields recognized
with Business Card
Reader
Updates to AI Builder in
the Power Apps canvas
studio
AI Builder flow
templates
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/category/ai-builder/

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On the roadmap
New AI Models
• Prebuilt Text classification
model
• Anomaly detection
• Image moderation
• Receipt scanning
Usability
• AI Builder connector
• Guided learning Form
processor
• Entity extraction model
• New Power Apps controls
• New prebuilt Flow templates
• ‘Try’ feature for the keyword
extraction model.
AND MORE…

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Availability,
Administration
& Licensing

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Availability per region

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Custom model
maintenance &
deployment

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Update custom model
Create new version
• From published version
• Or
• From last trained version
Change settings or training
data
Publish
or
• Only for:
• Prediction model
• Text classification model
Retrain
model

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Deployment through solutions*
PROD
Production
environment
Managed
solution
• Use model
TEST /QA
Sandbox
environment
Managed
solution
• Test model
DEV
Sandbox
environment
Unmanaged
solution
• Create model
• Train model
• Improve model

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Using the model
PUBLISH THE MODEL SET RUN SCHEDULE* SHARE MODEL

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Roles & security  CDS security roles
ENVIRONMENT MAKERS
CREATE AI MODELS
CDS USERS
USE MODELS
SYTEM ADMINS & CUSTOMIZERS
ACCESS ALL MODELS

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AI Builder License
AI Builder Capacity Add-on
$ 500 / subscription
1 million service credits
Tenant level
Credit consumption
Training models
Using models
Credit calculation ???? – Calculator not available yet
Credit allocation
Allocate capacity to environments in
Power Platform admin center

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Q & A