8. Language to image synthesis
”A bird with wings that
are blue and a red
belly”
“this bird is red with
white and has a very
short beak”
“A herd of sheep
grazing on a lush green
field”
12. Speech recognition human parity
ResNet
VGG
B-LSTM
Combinator at
word level
“the cat sat”
Word
hypotheses
Posterior
probabilities
…
Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4
13. Machine reading human parity
1. Microsoft – MSR 82.650%
2. HIT and iFLYTEK Research 82.482%
3. Alibaba iDST NLP 82.440%
4. Microsoft – MSR 82.136%
5. Tencent DPDAC NLP 81.790%
…
11. Microsoft – MSR 79.901%
13. Microsoft – Business AI 79.608%
14. Alibaba iDST NLP 79.199%
14. HIT and iFLYTEK Research 79.083%
15. Microsoft – Business AI 78.978%
…
Human
Parity
Exact Match %
SQuAD
(Stanford Question Answering Dataset)
500+ articles
100,000+ question-answers pairs
25. Local machine
Scale up to DSVM
Scale out with Spark on HDInsight
Azure Batch AI (Coming Soon)
ML Server
Azure Machine Learning - Experimentation
A ZURE ML
EXPERIMENTATION
Command line tools
IDEs
Notebooks in Workbench
VS Code Tools for AI
27. Azure Machine Learning Workbench
Windows and Mac based
companion for AI development
Full environment set up (Python,
Jupyter, etc)
Embedded notebooks
Run History and Comparison
experience
New data wrangling tools
28. Visual Studio Tools for AI
Visual Studio extension with deep
integration to Azure ML
End to end development
environment, from new project
through training
Support for remote training
Job management
On top of all of the goodness of
Visual Studio (Python, Jupyter, Git,
etc)
30. Azure Machine Learning Studio
Platform for emerging data scientists to
graphically build and deploy experiments
• Rapid experiment composition
• > 100 easily configured modules for
data prep, training, evaluation
• Extensibility through R & Python
• Serverless training and deployment
Some numbers:
• 100’s of thousands of deployed models
serving billions of requests
31. Machine Learning & AI Portfolio
When to use what?
What engine(s) do you want
to use?
Deployment target
Which experience do you
want?
Build your own or consume pre-
trained models?
Microsoft
ML & AI
products
Build your
own
Azure Machine Learning
Code first
(On-prem)
ML Server
On-
prem
Hadoop
SQL
Server
(cloud)
AML services (Preview)
SQL
Server
Spark Hadoop Azure
Batch
DSVM Azure
Container
Service
Visual tooling
(cloud)
AML Studio
Consume
Cognitive services, bots