Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services
Head over explore Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services and see what they are up to.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/cognitive-services/
Make sure you click on ‘DEMO’ to test it out easily!
After you have had an explore of Microsoft’s Azure cognitive services…
Pick one to think about how you would apply to it to your life or in your community. Once you have picked one, figure out:
Who would this idea be helping?
What problem would this idea solve?
ow that you know about the Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, you might want to consider drawing on one of these approaches when you innovate your AI solution.
For example, your AI idea might be for an app that can scan people’s faces when they leave the beach to see if they have been sunburnt that day!
This would need to draw on the Vision stream of Cognitive Services.
Seeing AI
Let’ see how these Cognitive Services are being used in real apps.
Have someone in your class download the Seeing AI app:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai
Then have a play with the app.
What Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services is it using?
Which Cognitive Services do you think in in use in the video below?
How old do you look?
Microsoft has a pretty fun site called:
Have a play with the site, and then ask yourself which cognitive services are being used here? Maybe guess your teacher’s age before the site does and see who gets closer!
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