Когнитивные API (ИИ сервисы) для бизнеса

2021. Microsoft Azure to host GPT-3 instances for its clients



Microsoft announced OpenAI Service based on its Azure cloud platform. The service can be used for a variety of tasks, from processing client requests and summarizing large texts to writing code or generating answers to questions. Microsoft cited the example of a sports franchise developing an app to interact with fans during matches. Using GPT-3, a stream of comments can be transformed into short compilations of game highlights or generated original content for social media. Microsoft promised to provide customers with tools for filtering and moderating user requests and responses. In May, the company integrated the GPT-3 algorithm into the Power Apps low-code development platform to simplify coding.


2019. Microsoft unveiled services for recognizing handwritten text and completed forms



Microsoft has introduced several new cognitive services on its cloud platform Azure Machine Learning. Firstly, these are gifts for companies that deal with documents, forms, and memos containing handwritten text. The Ink Recognizer and Form Recognizer services allow you to convert all these papers into digital text and data. The Conversation Transcription service converts telephone conversations into text, recognizing the author of each phrase. Unfortunately, all this is only in English for now. Another new service, Personalizer, allows you to select personalized recommendations for website or online store visitors based on behavioral factors. In addition, Microsoft has introduced a new visual designer for creating machine learning models. Now even marketers can play around. You just need to upload a database and specify which parameter you want to predict.


2016. AWS now offers cognitive API services



Amazon has launched three cognitive API services on its Amazon Web Services platform. The first, Rekognition, enables image recognition. You upload images to the platform and receive a list of object names, such as a dog breed. The second, Amazon Polly, converts any text (in 24 languages, including Russian) to speech. You can choose from 47 male and female voices. The third, Lex, is the engine that powers Amazon Alexa, the virtual assistant. It allows you to create chatbots within messaging apps and mobile apps that answer your customers' questions. Integrations with Facebook Messenger, Slack, and Twilio are available from the outset.

2014. IBM opens Watson capabilities to third-party applications


IBM has launched Watson Developer Cloud, which allows application developers to harness the cognitive capabilities of this artificial intelligence. This is implemented through APIs on the IBM BlueMix cloud platform. Specifically, functions such as language detection, machine translation, text analysis, data visualization are available, as well as Watson's core function—answering questions posed in natural language (which is what Watson was originally designed for). This means you can ask Watson to examine text materials on a specific topic, ask it questions, and receive short answers (requiring knowledge, not logical thinking). However, for now, Watson can only answer questions in English.