What is AI?
AI is the creation of
software that imitates
human behaviors and
capabilities. Key
workloads include:
Machine learning - This
is often the foundation for an
AI system, and is the
way we "teach" a computer
model to make predictions
and draw conclusions from
data.
Anomaly detection - The
capability to automatically
detect errors or unusual
activity in a system.
Computer vision - The
capability of software to
interpret the world visually
through cameras, video, and
images.
Natural language
processing - The capability
for a computer to
interpret
written or spoken language,
and respond in kind.
Knowledge mining - The
capability to extract
information from large
volumes
of often unstructured data to
create a searchable
knowledge store.
Understand machine learning
Machine Learning i
AI and data science both involve gathering, analyzing, and collecting large
data sets—but they have different goals. AI focuses on how computers can
make decisions based on data. Data science, on the other hand, focuses
on the use of mathematics, statistics, and machine learning to extract
insights from data.
Use visual tools to create machine learning models with Azure
Machine Learning at Microsoft Curriculum
1. Use automated machine learning in Azure Machine Learning. ...
2. Create a Regression Model with Azure Machine Learning designer. ...
3. Create a classification model with Azure Machine Learning designer.
What is computer vision in Microsoft Azure?
Computer vision is a field of computer science that focuses on enabling
computers to identify and understand objects and people in images and
videos. Like other types of AI, computer vision seeks to perform and
automate tasks that replicate human capabilities.
Natural language processing (NLP) combines computational linguistics,
machine learning, and deep learning models to process human language.
Computational linguistics is the science of understanding and constructing
human language models with computers and software tools.
Conversational AI technology is an advanced branch of artificial intelligence
designed to enable natural and human-like interactions between machines
and users. It utilizes algorithms, machine learning, and natural language
processing to comprehend and respond to spoken or written language.
The terms parameter and hyperparameter can be confusing. The
model's parameters are what you set in the right pane of the component.
Basically, this component performs a parameter sweep over the specified
parameter settings. It learns an optimal set of hyperparameters, which
might be different for each specific decision tree, dataset, or regression
method. The process of finding the optimal configuration is sometimes
called tuning.
The component supports the following method for finding the optimum
settings for a model: integrated train and tune. In this method, you
configure a set of parameters to use. You then let the component iterate
over multiple combinations. The component measures accuracy until it
finds a "best" model. With most learner components, you can choose which
parameters should be changed during the training process, and which
should remain fixed.
Depending on how long you want the tuning process to run, you might
decide to exhaustively test all combinations. Or you might shorten the
process by establishing a grid of parameter combinations and testing a
randomized subset of the parameter grid.
Although neural networks are widely known for use in deep learning and
modeling complex problems such as image recognition, they are easily
adapted to regression problems. Any class of statistical models can be
termed a neural network if they use adaptive weights and can approximate
non-linear functions of their inputs. Thus neural network regression is suited
to problems where a more traditional regression model cannot fit a solution.
Neural network regression is a supervised learning method, and therefore
requires a tagged dataset, which includes a label column. Because a
regression model predicts a numerical value, the label column must be a
numerical data type.
We will be using a subset of NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission — green
taxi trip records available from Azure Open Datasets. The data is enriched
with holiday and weather data. Based on the enriched dataset, we will
configure the prebuilt Neural Network Regression module to create a
regression model using a customizable neural network algorithm. We will
train the model by providing the model and the NYC taxi dataset as an input
to Train Model. The trained model can then be used to predict NYC taxi
fares. We will do all of this from the Azure Machine Learning designer
without writing a single line of code.
