Marc DuikerLead Consultant

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Sitecore & Microsoft Cognitive Services:Epic Shit or Meh ?

ML & AI is hot!

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Cortana Intelligence Suite

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Microsoft Cognitive Services

From faces to feelings, allow your apps to understand images and video

Hear and speak to your users by filtering noise, identifying speakers, and understanding intent

Process text and learn how to recognize what users want

Tap into rich knowledge amassed from the web, academia, or your own data

Access billions of web pages, images, videos, and news with the power of Bing APIs

Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs

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https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services

Microsoft Cognitive Services Docs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/index

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How did we end up here?

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Microsoft Cognitive Services

Bing Search

Project Oxford

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)

Microsoft Technology & Research

2015

2009 2016

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The Seeing AI project

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What about Sitecore?

Sitecore is following the trend

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From the community

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Sitecore Cognitive Services

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Sitecore

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Things to improve

• API throttling to prevent ‘Too many requests’

• Implement remaining Cognitive Services APIs

• Update to Helix based architecture

• Add unit tests

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Give it a spin yourself!

• https://github.com/markstiles/SitecoreCognitiveServices

• https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Samples-IntelligentKiosk

• https://cognitive.uservoice.com/

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Marc Duikermduiker@xpirit.com@marcduiker

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Sitecore Related Resources

• https://www.sitecore.net/en/company/blog/352/here-come-the-marketing-bots-the-role-of-machine-learning-and-ai-in-marketing-4432

• http://www.sitecore.net/en/company/blog/467/the-difference-between-machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-a-marketers-primer-4435

• https://www.markstiles.net/blog//tag/microsoft-cognitive-services

• https://visionsincode.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/make-a-website-emotion-aware-with-sitecore-using-microsofts-cognitive-services/

• http://www.pveller.com/image-tagging-automation-with-computer-vision/

• https://tomdudfield.com/computer-vision-alt-tags-in-sitecore/

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Cognitive Services Related Resources

• https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services

• https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/sdk-sample

• https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B855

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