Azure AI Services at Scale for Cloud, Mobile, and Edge: Building Intelligent Apps with Azure Cognitive Services and Machine Learning

Take advantage of the power of cloud and the latest AI techniques. Whether you're an experienced developer wanting to improve your app with AI-powered features, or you want to make a business process smarter by getting AI to do some of the work, this book's got you covered. Authors Anand Raman, Chris Hoder, Simon Bisson, and Mary Branscombe show you how to build practical intelligent applications for the cloud, mobile, browsers, and edge devices using a hands-on approach.

This book shows you how cloud AI services fit in alongside familiar software development approaches, walks you through key Microsoft AI services, and provides real-world examples of AI-oriented architectures that integrate different Azure AI services. All you need to get started is a working knowledge of basic cloud concepts.

• Become familiar with Azure AI offerings and capabilities
• Build intelligent applications using Azure Cognitive Services
• Train, tune, and deploy models with Azure Machine Learning, PyTorch, and the open neural network exchange (ONNX)
• Learn to solve business problems using AI in the Power Platform
• Use transfer learning to train vision, speech, and language models in minutes

充分利用雲端和最新的人工智慧技術。無論您是一位有經驗的開發人員，想要通過人工智慧功能來改進應用程式，還是想要讓人工智慧來完成一些工作，這本書都能滿足您的需求。作者Anand Raman、Chris Hoder、Simon Bisson和Mary Branscombe以實踐為基礎，向您展示如何使用雲端、移動設備、瀏覽器和邊緣設備來建立實用的智能應用程式。

本書向您展示了雲端人工智慧服務如何與熟悉的軟體開發方法相結合，引導您了解關鍵的Microsoft人工智慧服務，並提供了整合不同Azure人工智慧服務的面向人工智慧架構的實際範例。您只需要具備基本的雲端概念知識，就可以開始使用。

本書內容包括：
- 熟悉Azure人工智慧服務的提供和功能
- 使用Azure認知服務建立智能應用程式
- 使用Azure Machine Learning、PyTorch和開放式神經網絡交換（ONNX）來訓練、調整和部署模型
- 學習在Power Platform中使用人工智慧來解決業務問題
- 使用轉移學習在幾分鐘內訓練視覺、語音和語言模型

Anand Raman leads the program management for AI Services Platform at Microsoft. Previously, he was the chief of staff for the Microsoft Azure AI and Data Group, covering data platforms and machine learning, and ran the company's product management and the development teams for Azure Data Services and the Visual Studio and Windows Server user experience teams; he also worked several years as researcher before joining Microsoft. Anand holds a PhD in computational fluid mechanics.

Chris Hoder is a Program Manager on the Cognitive Services team at Microsoft. Chris focuses on the end-to-end developer experience across the entire suite of services - from our API and SDK designs to the getting started documentation. In prior roles, Chris worked directly with customers to envision, design, build and deploy AI-focused applications using Microsoft's AI stack.

Anand Raman在Microsoft負責AI服務平台的程式管理。之前，他擔任Microsoft Azure AI和Data Group的首席幕僚，負責數據平台和機器學習，並負責Azure Data Services、Visual Studio和Windows Server使用者體驗團隊的產品管理和開發團隊；在加入Microsoft之前，他也擔任了幾年的研究員。Anand擁有計算流體力學的博士學位。

Chris Hoder是Microsoft認知服務團隊的程式經理。Chris專注於整個服務套件的端到端開發者體驗，從API和SDK設計到入門文件。在之前的職位上，Chris直接與客戶合作，設想、設計、構建和部署使用Microsoft的AI堆棧的應用程式。