{"id":3750,"date":"2019-06-18T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:21:52","slug":"take-the-lead-with-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/18\/take-the-lead-with-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the lead with artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ready to take the lead with artificial intelligence? Good for you! In this post, we focus on what real-world small and medium-sized business owners and managers need to do to make their operations \u201csmarter, stronger, and faster\u201d using AI. Included are links to AI business resources from Microsoft and some inspirational reads.<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence. This fantastical concept of teaching computers to teach themselves has transitioned from sci-fi movie and TV screens to our business lives. But never mind the cool dramatizations. What does artificial intelligence really mean? And, realistically, how can you introduce it to your business to gain competitive advantage?<\/p>\n

AI defined<\/h2>\n

As a concept, Theo Van Kraay\u2014Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect (Advanced Analytics & AI), Customer Success Unit\u2014defines AI<\/a>\u00a0this way: \u201cArtificial Intelligence is the ability of a computer system to deal with ambiguity, by making predictions using previously gathered\u00a0data<\/strong>, and learning from errors in those predictions in order to generate newer, more accurate predictions about how to behave in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imitating humans<\/h2>\n

Several key AI technologies-as-cloud-services imitate intelligent human behaviour. They imitate human vision through object recognition (like scanning footage). They simulate human speech through speech recognition (like Cortana in Windows 10). And they simulate human language through machine translation.<\/p>\n

Transformative technologies<\/h2>\n

To bring that cognitive capacity into the field, technical teams build solutions using other revolutionary technologies and services.<\/p>\n