Ignite Announcements- Artificial intelligence

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  • AI for Humanitarian Action
Microsoft is launching AI for Humanitarian Action, a new $40 million, five-year program that will harness the power of artificial intelligence for disaster recovery, helping children, protecting refugees and displaced people, and promoting respect for human rights. The company will partner with nongovernmental organizations through grants and investments of technology and expertise. AI for Humanitarian Action is part of Microsoft’s AI for Good initiative, a $115 million commitment to empowering people and organizations to solve global challenges with access to game-changing AI technology and educational opportunities, launched in July 2017.
  •  Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise

Microsoft is bringing customizable Cortana experiences and skills with the new Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise. The end-to-end solution allows enterprises to build custom skills and agents, test them with users and fully manage deployment to their organization. Developed with the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Cognitive Services Language Understanding service, the platform will help enterprises effectively use Cortana to improve workforce productivity. This is currently available by invite only and more broadly in the near future where companies and developers will be able to request an invitation.

  • New Azure Machine Learning capabilities

Azure Machine Learning helps data scientists and developers build and train AI models faster, then easily deploy to the cloud or the edge. Significant new updates to the service include automated machine learning to identify the most efficient algorithms and optimize model performance, additional hardware-accelerated models for FPGAs, and a Python SDK that makes Azure Machine Learning services accessible from popular IDEs and notebooks.

  •  Azure Cognitive Services update — Speech Service general availability 
Microsoft’s new Speech Service, which combines several AI speech capabilities into a single service, is now generally available. The solution bundles improved models for speech recognition, capabilities for speech translation and the ability to customize models to create a unique voice. Part of Azure Cognitive Services, it was launched in public preview in May at Build 2018. Also, a preview is now available for Human Parity Text to Speech. This uses Natural Text to Speech to make the machines sound more natural.  
  • Microsoft Bot Framework v4 general availability 
The Microsoft Bot Framework v4 SDK is now generally available with rich, multilanguage tools for building and connecting intelligent bots using C#, Java, Python and JavaScript. The latest version simplifies your first bot experience, with a modular, extensible architecture that allows you to pick components and services you need and leverage a rich ecosystem of pluggable extensions. It was launched in public preview in May at Build 2018.

  • Unified search across Microsoft 365
Microsoft Search, a new unified search experience in Microsoft 365, enables you to find, command, navigate and discover items across your organization’s network of data, transforming your search bar into a resource for collective knowledge. An AI-powered insights engine connects content across Windows, Office.com, Office apps, SharePoint, OneDrive and third-party ecosystems to surface relevant, personalized results, whether it’s a recent chat or a document a co-worker created. With Microsoft Search you can harness the power of your company’s collective brain securely and safely to get the information you need and get back to work. Building on personalized search introduced at Microsoft Ignite 2017, the new Microsoft Search capability pulls together the power of the Microsoft Graph and AI technology from Bing for the first time. A preview of the capability is now rolling out to Office.com, including start pages and Bing.com. 
  •  New AI-powered meeting features in Microsoft 365 
Advancing the company’s vision for intelligent communications, new AI-powered features for video meetings are now available in Microsoft Teams. Background blur uses facial detection to blur your background during video calls, so people can focus on you and not what’s behind you, and intelligent meeting recording automatically generates captions and a searchable, time-coded transcript. Background blur and meeting recording are now rolling out to Office 365 commercial customers. General availability of new live event capabilities will begin to roll out worldwide in Microsoft 365 later this year. These new tools allow customers to create and stream live and on-demand events in Teams, Yammer and Microsoft Stream to inform and engage customers and employees, wherever they are. Users can stream directly from their desktop or a professional studio. Go to Microsoft 365 Blog and contact WE Modern Work team to learn more. artificial intelligence and data 9 |
  •  Ideas in Office
Ideas is a new feature in Office that consolidates powerful AI features into a simplified experience across Office 365. A single click launches Ideas, which follows along as you create a document and makes intelligent suggestions tailored to what you’re doing. For instance, in PowerPoint, Ideas recommends designs, layouts and images. And in Excel, it recognizes trends, suggests charts and identifies outliers in your data. Ideas is generally available in Excel today and will begin rolling out in preview soon to the other apps starting with PowerPoint Online.
  • Intelligent enhancements in Excel
Data Types in Excel is now generally available. Launched in public preview in March 2018, this AI-powered tool turns references to stocks and geographies into rich entities that can be used to build powerful, interactive spreadsheets, making it easy to get updated stock prices, company information, population, area and more. In addition, a new image recognition capability in Excel lets you quickly convert a picture of a data table into an Excel file that can be edited, analyzed and shared. That capability — called Insert Data from Picture — is now available in public preview. Other Excel improvements include faster lookup-type functions, which now take seconds, instead of minutes.

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