Bharat Sandhu, Director of Azure AI and Mixed Reality at Microsoft, joins Chris and Daniel to talk about how Microsoft is making AI accessible and productive for users, and how AI solutions can address real world challenges that customers face. He also shares Microsoft’s research-to-product process, along with the advances they have made in computer vision, image captioning, and how researchers were able to make AI that can describe images as well as people do.

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Featuring:

• Bharat Sandu – LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do
• From search to translation, AI research is improving Microsoft products
• Azure AI: Build mission-critical AI apps with new Cognitive Services capabilities

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