Comparing Google and Microsoft’s Cognitive Services

The Race Is On

June 2017

Jeff FriedCTO, BA Insight

The Cognitive Arms Race

Agent Bots Cognitive Machine Learning Augmented Reality

Microsoft Cortana Bot Framework Cognitive Services- Vision- Speech- Language- Knowledge- Search- Labs

Azure MLCognitive Toolkit

Hololens

Google Google Assistant API.AI Cloud Vision APICloud Video IntelligenceCloud Speech APICloud Natural Language APIGoogle Knowledge GraphGoogle Custom SearchML Advanced Solutions Lab

Cloud ML EngineTensorFlow

Glass at WorkDaydream/Tango

IBM Watson Virtual Agent Watson Conversation Watson APIs- Vision- Speech- Language- Data Insights

Watson ML ServiceApache SystemML

Amazon Alexa Amazon Lex RekognitionPolly

Amazon ML

Apple Siri SiriKitSpeech

Core ML ARKit

Facebook Facebook M ParlAI FastTextCommAI

Torch Oculus Rift

The Cognitive Arms Race

Today, we’ll focus on Microsoft and Google

events/messages; cognitive services; example project; DX

BA Insight Confidential

BA Insight Confidential

Agent Applications Services Infrastructure

Microsoft AI Portfolio

Cortana Office 365

Dynamics 365

SwiftKey

Pix

Customer Service

and Support

Bot Framework

Cognitive Services

Cortana Intelligence

Cognitive Toolkit

Azure Machine

Learning

Azure N Series

FPGA

People

Microsoft Cognitive ServicesGive your apps a human side

Image Classifier and Search

project libraries

and

issue detection

Search Visualization Workflow

Sales Assistant: Logical Architecture

Client

App/Device

CRIS

Voice to Text

LUIS

Semantics

Extraction

Web Service

App/API

Data Sources

Text to

Speech

ML Studio

Service

EndPoints

Power BI

Bot FX

SQL Server

or DW

Document

Db

Key/ValueGraph Db

Table

StoreBLOB

Microsoft Azure

Voice Data

Text + Tabular

Data & Power BI

Visuals

Human

User

Voice

Capture

Polyglot

The Cognitive Arms Race:focus is now on winning developers

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Observations/Recommendations

Contact:@jefffriedJeff.Fried@BAinsight.comwww.BAinsight.com

Discussion/Q&A

Background slides

Agent Bots Cognitive Machine Learning Augmented Reality

Microsoft Cortana Bot Framework Cognitive Services- Vision- Speech- Language- Knowledge- Search- Labs

Azure MLCognitive Toolkit

Hololens

Google Google Assistant API.AI Cloud Vision APICloud Video IntelligenceCloud Speech APICloud Natural Language APIGoogle Knowledge GraphGoogle Custom SearchML Advanced Solutions Lab

Cloud ML EngineTensorFlow

Glass at WorkDaydream/Tango

IBM Watson Virtual Agent Watson Conversation Watson APIs- Vision- Speech- Language- Data Insights

Watson ML ServiceApache SystemML

Amazon Alexa Amazon Lex RekognitionPolly

Amazon ML

Apple Siri SiriKitSpeech

Core ML ARKit

Facebook Facebook M ParlAI FastTextCommAI

Torch Oculus Rift

The Cognitive Arms Race

Content

ContentProcessing

SearchIndex

Search UI

ML applied to search

QueryProcessing

Learning about content structure Learning about user intent

Analytics

Behavioral data to drive learning

Learning to rank

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BA Insight Approach

Connectivity

Classification

Applications

Analytics

Search

Engines

Environments

Quickstartguide

Graph data

Get curious – ask a

question

See some results –how well did it go

Pick a common

ML tool and sample

data

Disease or not disease?

MicrosoftML

Option A – Prebuilt Solutions

Cognitive Services API

Azure Gallery

Option B – Manual Solutions

Microsoft R Server

Azure Machine Learning Studio

Option B – Manual Solutions (cont’d)

Cognitive Toolkit Tensor Flow