AI-102T00 - Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

1. Introduction to AI on Azure
   Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly at the core of modern apps and services. In this lesson, you'll learn about some common AI capabilities that you can leverage in your apps, and how those capabilities are implemented in Microsoft Azure. You'll also learn about some considerations for designing and implementing AI solutions responsibly.
   1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
   2. Artificial Intelligence in Azure
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe considerations for creating AI-enabled applications
      • Identify Azure services for AI application development
2. Developing AI Apps with Cognitive Services
   Cognitive Services are the core building blocks for integrating AI capabilities into your apps. In this lesson, you'll learn how to provision, secure, monitor, and deploy cognitive services.
   1. Getting Started with Cognitive Services
   2. Using Cognitive Services for Enterprise Applications
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Provision and consume cognitive services in Azure
      • Manage cognitive services security
      • Monitor cognitive services
      • Use a cognitive services container
3. Getting Started with Natural Language Processing
   Natural Language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with extracting insights from written or spoken language. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use cognitive services to analyze and translate text.
   1. Analyzing Text
   2. Translating Text
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use the Text Analytics cognitive service to analyze text
      • Use the Translator cognitive service to translate text
4. Building Speech-Enabled Applications
   Many modern apps and services accept spoken input and can respond by synthesizing text. In this lesson, you'll continue your exploration of natural language processing capabilities by learning how to build speech-enabled applications.
   1. Speech Recognition and Synthesis
   2. Speech Translation
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use the Speech cognitive service to recognize and synthesize speech
      • Use the Speech cognitive service to translate speech
5. Creating Language Understanding Solutions
   To build an application that can intelligently understand and respond to natural language input, you must define and train a model for language understanding. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use the Language Understanding service to create an app that can identify user intent from natural language input.
   1. Creating a Language Understanding App
   2. Publishing and Using a Language Understanding App
   3. Using Language Understanding with Speech
   4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Create a Language Understanding app
      • Create a client application for Language Understanding
      • Integrate Language Understanding and Speech
6. Building a QnA Solution
   One of the most common kinds of interaction between users and AI software agents is for users to submit questions in natural language, and for the AI agent to respond intelligently with an appropriate answer. In this lesson, you'll explore how the QnA Maker service enables the development of this kind of solution.
   1. Creating a QnA Knowledge Base
   2. Publishing and Using a QnA Knowledge Base
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use QnA Maker to create a knowledge base
      • Use a QnA knowledge base in an app or bot
7. Conversational AI and the Azure Bot Service
   Bots are the basis for an increasingly common kind of AI application in which users engage in conversations with AI agents, often as they would with a human agent. In this lesson, you'll explore the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Azure Bot Service, which together provide a platform for creating and delivering conversational experiences.
   1. Bot Basics
   2. Implementing a Conversational Bot
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use the Bot Framework SDK to create a bot
      • Use the Bot Framework Composer to create a bot
8. Getting Started with Computer Vision
   Computer vision is an area of artificial intelligence in which software applications interpret visual input from images or video. In this lesson, you'll start your exploration of computer vision by learning how to use cognitive services to analyze images and video.
   1. Analyzing Images
   2. Analyzing Videos
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use the Computer Vision service to analyze images
      • Use Video Analyzer to analyze videos
9. Developing Custom Vision Solutions
   While there are many scenarios where pre-defined general computer vision capabilities can be useful, sometimes you need to train a custom model with your own visual data. In this lesson, you'll explore the Custom Vision service, and how to use it to create custom image classification and object detection models.
   1. Image Classification
   2. Object Detection
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use the Custom Vision service to implement image classification
      • Use the Custom Vision service to implement object detection
10. Detecting, Analyzing, and Recognizing Faces
    Facial detection, analysis, and recognition are common computer vision scenarios. In this lesson, you'll explore the user of cognitive services to identify human faces.
    1. Detecting Faces with the Computer Vision Service
    2. Using the Face Service
    3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Detect faces with the Computer Vision service
       • Detect, analyze, and recognize faces with the Face service
11. Reading Text in Images and Documents
    Optical character recognition (OCR) is another common computer vision scenario, in which software extracts text from images or documents. In this lesson, you'll explore cognitive services that can be used to detect and read text in images, documents, and forms.
    1. Reading text with the Computer Vision Service
    2. Extracting Information from Forms with the Form Recognizer service
    3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Use the Computer Vision service to read text in images and documents
       • Use the Form Recognizer service to extract data from digital forms
12. Creating a Knowledge Mining Solution
    Ultimately, many AI scenarios involve intelligently searching for information based on user queries. AI-powered knowledge mining is an increasingly important way to build intelligent search solutions that use AI to extract insights from large repositories of digital data and enable users to find and analyze those insights.
    1. Implementing an Intelligent Search Solution
    2. Developing Custom Skills for an Enrichment Pipeline
    3. Creating a Knowledge Store
    4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Create an intelligent search solution with Azure Cognitive Search
       • Implement a custom skill in an Azure Cognitive Search enrichment pipeline
       • Use Azure Cognitive Search to create a knowledge store

Course Labs

1. Get Started with Cognitive Services
2. Manage Cognitive Services Security
3. Monitor Cognitive Services
4. Use a Cognitive Services Container
5. Translate Text
6. Analyze Text
7. Recognize and Synthesize Speech
8. Translate Speech
9. Create a Language Understanding Client Application
10. Create a Language Understanding App
11. Use the Speech and Language Understanding Services
12. Create a QnA Solution
13. Create a Bot with the Bot Framework SDK
14. Create a Bot with Bot Framework Composer
15. Analyze Video
16. Analyze Images with Computer Vision
17. Classify Images with Custom Vision
18. Detect Objects in Images with Custom Vision
19. Detect, Analyze, and Recognize Faces
20. Read Text in Images
21. Extract Data from Forms
22. Create a Custom Skill for Azure Cognitive Search
23. Create an Azure Cognitive Search solution
24. Create a Knowledge Store with Azure Cognitive Search