NetEase Technology News May 11th, after the Build 2017 conference in Seattle, Microsoft Global Executive Vice President, Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Dr. Shen Xiangyang, head of Microsoft Research Department issued a paper describing the vision of Microsoft's Microsoft artificial intelligence: the artificial intelligence belt For everyone. He also said that Microsoft will be committed to providing developers with a complete platform including tools and services. At the same time, it will focus on people’s concerns about the replacement of human beings with artificial intelligence. Microsoft emphasizes the principle of trust and always controls everything. For developers, Shen Xiangyang said in the text that with the help of Microsoft's cognitive services, developers can let their applications recognize gestures, translate multiple languages, quickly search through video parsing, edit, add subtitles in real time, and even Custom data to identify a particular category of screens. The focus is on Microsoft's progress in understanding speech and language and has led to a trend of change—“conversational artificial intelligenceâ€: from the world in which humans must understand computers to the world in which computers really understand humans. In addition, regarding the integration of Microsoft and artificial intelligence, Shen Xiangyang said that artificial intelligence is redefining Microsoft. Microsoft's every product and service is integrating artificial intelligence, from Xbox to Windows, from Bing search to Office. The practical application of artificial intelligence in Office and Cortana. Finally, Shen Xiangyang also focused on Microsoft's other important factor in the implementation of artificial intelligence - the layout of the data, focusing on the details of Microsoft Graph and the new sales experience platform Tact to be launched in the second half of this year. The following is the full text content: Microsoft Artificial Intelligence - Enhancing Human Intelligence Shen Xiangyang, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Microsoft, Head of Microsoft AI and Microsoft Research Division A few years ago, it was hard to imagine that the same technical tools would be driven by artificial intelligence. After a few years, it is hard to imagine that there will be no artificial intelligence behind any technology. With the growing power of cloud computing, powerful algorithms that run on deep neural networks, and the massive amounts of data that can be acquired today, driven by the interweaving of these three powerful forces, today we are finally able to realize the dream of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has endless potential, it has the ability to subvert any existing vertical industry, such as banking or retail, and any single business process, such as sales, marketing or human resources and headhunting. In this way, one day, artificial intelligence will have the ability to add brilliance to man’s boundless intellect—enhancing human capabilities and help us achieve greater productivity. Recently, artificial intelligence has begun to attract the attention of the general public, but Microsoft has long invested in artificial intelligence. Since more than two decades ago, we have been continuously building the basis of artificial intelligence, machine learning, speech recognition, computer vision, and image recognition. One of these fields has continuously accumulated and eventually contributed to today's Breakthrough in striking artificial intelligence. Today, we have been able to use the results of previous decades of research, use the Microsoft Graph to read data, and use the powerful computing power of Azure Cloud Computing. Based on this, we have created a new generation of artificial intelligence tools and products. Developers and customers can really benefit from it. Today, at the 2017 Build 2017 conference in Seattle, we shared Microsoft's vision for artificial intelligence: Bring AI to everyone, from developers to data scientists, from technology enthusiasts to students. As an integral part of this vision, we are committed to providing developers with a complete platform including tools and services. At the same time, we must emphasize the principle of trust and always keep people in control. Bring artificial intelligence to every developer With the help of Microsoft's cognitive services, developers can let their applications recognize gestures, translate multiple languages, quickly search through editing videos, edit, add captions in real time, and even identify specific categories of screens with custom data. . At the Build conference, we announced that we can now provide 29 cognitive services, which provides developers with a wide range of options, allowing them to directly use off-the-shelf artificial intelligence, or customize it, with only a few lines of code. We also demonstrated how developers can customize these services without having to design a separate deep learning model. The newly added services include Bing Custom Search, Custom Vision Service, Custom Decision Service, and Video Indexer. We also launched the Microsoft Cognitive Services Lab, which allows developers to become part of this research community to jointly explore and understand the future of artificial intelligence. The first artificial intelligence service provided by the Cognitive Services Lab is a gestures API that allows users to control and interact with gestures to create a more intuitive and natural manipulation experience. Microsoft's cognitive services provide the industry's largest number of artificial intelligence services, and Microsoft is the only major technology provider that provides customized features in key cognitive areas. Since its first release at the Build conference in 2015, more than 568,000 developers from more than 60 countries have registered to use this service. Our progress in understanding speech and language has led to a trend of change—from the world in which humans must understand the computer to the world in which computers really understand humans. We call it conversational artificial intelligence. Tools such as the Microsoft Dialogue Robot Framework are helping people use technology to achieve human-computer interaction in a more natural way. Since its launch last year, more than 130,000 developers have registered for the framework of dialogue robots and used it to create. At the Build conference, we demonstrated some new initiatives to make it easier for developers to use the framework of conversational robots. For example, a new adaptation card allows developers to create cards that work across multiple applications and platforms. In addition, developers can now publish their results to new channels, including Skype for Business, Bing Search, and Cortana, and use Microsoft's payment request API to use their robots for quick and easy checkouts. For those developers who want to train their own deep neural networks, we announced a limited preview of the new feature, Azure Batch AI Training, at the Build Conference. With this new service, developers can use their choice of any framework to train their data models, including the Microsoft Cognitive Services Toolkit, TensorFlow, and Caffe. At the Build conference, we also demonstrated how developers can run these deep learning models directly by using analytics integrations where the data is located, such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Cosmos DB, or SQL Server. Artificial intelligence and Azure complement each other and will provide developers with the most comprehensive artificial intelligence platform. Artificial Intelligence redefines Microsoft Today, Microsoft's every product and service is integrating artificial intelligence, from Xbox to Windows, from Bing search to Office. With Office, artificial intelligence makes it easier for people to create richer content. With Office Researcher, users can find everything they need. In a matter of seconds, it can help users research and plan out the framework of the document. For example, when designing PowerPoint, the language can be translated and the appropriate visual design elements can be suggested. . We are constantly researching how to use artificial intelligence to improve the Office experience. Today's Presentation Translator can use our translation API to translate PowerPoint documents into multiple languages ​​in real-time. After launching the Presentation Translator, it will automatically generate language-specific subtitles while the speaker speaks. It will even generate a link for participants to see their own language version of the presentation in real time. The ultimate artificial intelligence we conceived and worked for was Cortana, your personal assistant. At present, there are 145 million users around the world who are using Cortana, and Microsoft is also accelerating the promotion of Cortana across devices and platforms. We hope to make every developer more quickly accessible to this rapidly growing user base. In addition to Harman Kardon's Intoke smart speakers with Cortana, we also collaborated with HP on the device side and developed a reference platform with Intel to bring in more Cortana-powered smart devices. The power of data For artificial intelligence to succeed, there is another key element: data. To be successful, an artificial intelligence tool requires a lot of data to train and learn. At Build, we provide developers with more details about Microsoft Graph. It allows users to use the data from their organization to promote artificial intelligence transformation. With Office 365, Bing search, LinkedIn, Microsoft combines work data with outside data, plus data from any other business process or application. The new sales experience platform Tact, which will be launched in the second half of this year, will integrate the power of Microsoft Graph and data from business and customers. At Build, we showed how Microsoft's numerous products and services, including Dynamics 365, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Cortana Skills, Microsoft Graph, and Sentiment Analysis, were integrated into the Tact platform, becoming a virtual driven by conversational artificial intelligence. Sales assistant. At Microsoft, we hope to bring artificial intelligence to every developer and use Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Innovation, and Microsoft Graph to help create the next-generation applications driven by artificial intelligence. As computer scientist Alan Kay said, "The best way to predict the future is to create the future."