Windows 10: Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing

Brink · Sep 25, 2020

Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions where these queries are issued. To handle such a dynamic range of usage, AI models in Bing must continuously evolve and therefore Bing is the prime example of Microsoft AI at Scale.

This blog post introduces recent updates to Bing that are making use of the Microsoft Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) model, as well as expanding the use of the Microsoft Turing Natural Language Representation (T-NLR) model in production. If you are interested in trying out the Turing NLR model for your own business scenarios you can sign up for our preview.

Bringing Natural Language Generation into Bing

In May, we outlined the use of AI models fine-tuned from the Turing Natural Language Representation model in different parts of Bingâs question answering and ranking systems. In the last year, there has been very exciting progress on Natural Language Generation, including training our very own T-NLG model, and the introduction of OpenAIâs GPT-3, trained with Microsoft Azure. Today we are excited to share how these advancements are enabling us to build better search experiences.Improving Autosuggest using Turing-NLG Next Phrase Prediction

Autosuggest (AS) improves the search experience by suggesting the most relevant completed queries matching the partial query entered by the user. The key objective of AS is to save users time and keystrokes by offering better and faster query completion. The most frequent search prefixes are usually handled by suggestions that leverage previous queries issued by Bing users. However, as the user types more specific search terms (longer queries), the ability to generate suggestions on the fly becomes essential to overcome limitations of approaches based on previous queries.

Next Phrase Prediction is an AS feature that provides full phrase suggestions in real time for long queries. Before the introduction of Next Phrase Prediction, the approach for handling query suggestions for longer queries was limited to completing the current word being typed by the user. With Next Phrase Prediction, full phrase suggestions can be presented. Furthermore, because these suggestions are generated in real time, they are not limited to previously seen data or just the current word being typed. As a result, the coverage of AS completions increases considerably, improving the overall user experience significantly. The generative models are particularly challenging from an inferencing perspective due to â size of models and number of inferences required per query (one has to ideally run model inference per keystroke as the user is typing the query). We have introduced several innovations with respect to model compression, state caching, and hardware acceleration of these models to help delight our users cost efficiently.

Here are some examples that have suggestions that didn't before:

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Read more: Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing | Search Quality Insights

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Brink · Sep 25, 2020

#MSIgnite 2017 - Introducing Dynamics 365 AI Solutions

Digital transformation has been reshaping our world and artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the next phases of capability being unlocked by this transformation. It’s an incredible time to be working in the AI space and at Microsoft we are working to help developers build services that amplify human ingenuity. As part of this work, today at Ignite 2017 we made several announcements on how we are making the benefits of AI more accessible to organizations, developers and individuals.

The first was a set of announcements in support of our Microsoft AI Platform which provides an open and flexible platform that developers can use to infuse AI into their applications and services. The combination of cloud + AI + data, with the right tooling, makes it easier to adopt AI into applications through our AI services and infrastructure including; Cognitive Services, Bot Framework and Azure Machine Learning. Today more than 682k developers including Uber and Brainshark are currently using Cognitive Services while is adopting the Bot Framework and deep analytics to improve the efficiency of their operations. We also announced updates to our Azure Machine Learning services and tools, providing a single solution for developers and data scientists to create, deploy, manage and monitor models in the cloud, on-premise or on the edge.

Second, was a set of announcements around how we are continuing to infuse AI into existing solutions. This work builds on our continued investment in core AI research including major innovations in computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and more. Examples of product and services features infused with AI include: Office with intelligent image analysis or smart subtitles, Windows with biometric authentication, Bing, Cortana, and Dynamics 365. You can see me demonstrating PowerPoint Presentation Translator recently in . To make the workplace more productive today we introduced Bing for business private, which provides a unified view of personalized, contextual search results from inside and outside your organization. By integrating Bing for business into your workflow, as well as being able to use it through Cortana, you can be more productive with a unified and efficient way to get the information and documents you need, when you need it.

The third area, which I’m excited to talk about this week, was the introduction of new generation of Dynamics 365 AI solutions designed to tackle high value, complex enterprise scenarios. While AI is becoming more pervasive, creating new solutions that provide an intelligence layer between organizations systems of record and their engagement platforms can be a challenging task. That’s why these solutions bring together people with advanced AI research and data capabilities, development and LOB subject matter experts, and cutting edge technology to address these enterprise scenarios – end to end.

These new solutions leverage the Microsoft AI platform, tools and infrastructure. They are tailored to existing systems, processes and data and are built using modern AI approaches that can help organizations accelerate the digital transformation. We designed these solutions with three principles in mind:

Leverage Microsoft’s AI platform, data & expertise. With world-class AI research, cloud, data and developer platform, we are building our solutions on more than 25 years of work. These technologies have been used in our own products, services, and now enterprise-ready solutions.

Integrated with your core enterprise scenarios. Our solutions are built to focus on traditional, horizontal, business scenarios most large enterprises rely on to serve their customers. When we partner with customers, we tailor the solution to meet your requirements, customize it to your data, and connect it to your existing 1st and 3rd party line of business applications and IT systems.

AI driven solutions to transform your business. These new AI solutions are used to meet large-scale enterprise needs and we use them ourselves at Microsoft. You can adopt them with the confidence knowing that they will be ready for your business needs.

The promise of AI has always been to make lives better and to enhance the things we are doing today in a much more efficient and more powerful way. The solution we announced today is focused on applying AI to transform the customer service function. We have seen that today’s customer care can be costly, painful and inefficient. Customers generally do not enjoy needing to engage with support, agents can have low job satisfaction working with frustrated customers, and support leaders are always under CFO scrutiny leaving few dollars for innovation. We envision an AI powered future where customers get immediate, accurate and 24/7 support. Customer interactions become a source of insight for innovation and drive upsell and loyalty. A future where support agents focus on richer, more valuable interactions. That’s the future we demonstrated at Ignite, today.

Our goal is to increase satisfaction across areas where we engage the customer and within internal support teams who can work more effectively and efficiently. This is accomplished by having virtual agents engage with customers to solve their issues, and seamlessly transfer to support agents only when necessary. The agents receive real-time suggestions when a customer is handed off and can provide real-time feedback to train the virtual agents to become even more effective over time. Everything comes together in a comprehensive conversation management portal that empowers service managers to monitor and refine the conversations the virtual agents have with customers. To achieve immediate, personalized, and consistent service for customers, at scale, we leveraged the latest in AI principles and technologies, including:

AI Authoring to move beyond manually scripted dialogues;

Specialized Knowledge Graph blending our insights from Bing data with your specific business ontology;

Industry leading machine reading comprehension with our proprietary FusionNet engine; and

Reinforcement Learning to create a continuously learning customer care solution.

We tested it by implementing it across Microsoft’s support offerings in the US, with an end-user virtual agent and human agent assist technologies. Today this solution is handling over 650,000 sessions per week, is increasing both customer and support agent satisfactions, is reducing the routing for inquiries, and is allowing our agents to focus on higher value engagements. This solution is also being used by Early Access Program customers such as HP Inc. and Macy’s to augment their customer care efforts. “HP is reinventing the support experience

We are excited to introduce Dynamics 365 AI solutions today at Ignite 2017 and to introduce our first solution. You can read more about all of the Dynamics 365 news we announced at Ignite here and our new Dynamics 365 AI solutions, here.

Cheers,
Guggs
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Source: Introducing Dynamics 365 AI Solutions | Steve s Blog

Brink · Sep 25, 2020

Serving AI with Data: A Summary of Build 2017 Data Innovations

This week at the annual Microsoft Build conference, we are discussing how, more than ever, organizations are relying on developers to create breakthrough experiences. With big data, cloud and AI converging, innovation & disruption is accelerating to a pace never seen before. Data is the key strategic asset at the heart of this convergence. When combined with the limitless computing power of the cloud and new capabilities like Machine Learning and AI, it enables developers to build the next generation of intelligent applications. As a developer, you are looking for faster, easier ways to embrace these converging technologies and transform your app experiences.

Today at Build, we made several product announcements, adding to the recent momentum announced last month at Microsoft Data Amp, that will help empower every organization on the planet with data-driven intelligence. Across these innovations, we are pursuing three key themes:

Infusing AI within our data platform

Turnkey global distribution to push intelligence wherever your users are

Choice of database platforms and tools for developers

Infusing AI within our data platform

A thread of innovation you will see in our products is the deep integration of AI with data. In the past, a common application pattern was to create machine learning models outside the database in the application layer or in specialty statistical tools, and deploy these models in custom built production systems. This results in a lot of developer heavy lifting, and the development and deployment lifecycle can take months. Our approach dramatically simplifies the deployment of AI by bringing intelligence into existing well-engineered data platforms through a new extensibility model for databases.

SQL Server 2017

We started this journey by introducing R support within the SQL Server 2016 release and we are deepening this commitment with the upcoming release of SQL Server 2017. In this release, we have introduced support for a rich library of machine learning functions and introduced Python support to give you more choices across popular languages. SQL Server can also leverage GPU accelerated computing through the Python/R interface to power even the most intensive deep learning jobs on images, text and other unstructured data. Developers can implement GPU accelerated analytics and very sophisticated AI directly in the database server as stored procedures and gain orders of magnitude higher throughput.

Additionally, as data becomes more complex and the relationships across data are many-to-many, developers are looking for easier ways to ingest and manage this data. With SQL Server 2017, we have introduced Graph support to deliver the best of both relational and graph databases in a single product, including the ability to query across all data using a single platform.

We have made it easy for you to try SQL Server with R, Python, and Graph support today whether you are working with C#, Java, Node, PHP, or Ruby.

Azure SQL Database

We’re continuing to simultaneously ship SQL Server 2017 enhancements to Azure SQL Database, so you get consistent programming surface area across on-premises and cloud. Today, I am excited to announce the support for Graph is also coming to Azure SQL Database so you can also get the best of both relational and graph in a single proven service on Azure.

SQL Database is built for developer productivity with most database management tasks built-in. We have also built AI directly into the service itself, making it an intelligent database service. The service runs millions of customer databases, learns, and then adapts to offer customized experiences for each database. With Database Advisor, you can choose to let the service learn your unique patterns and make performance and tuning recommendations or automatically take action on your behalf. Today, I am also excited to announce general availability of Threat Detection, which uses machine learning around the clock to learn, profile and detect anomalous activity over your unique database and sends alerts in minutes so you can take immediate action versus what historically can take an organization days, months, or years to discover.

Also, we are making it even easier for you to move more of your existing SQL Server apps as-is to Azure SQL Database. Today we announced the private preview for a new deployment option within the service, Managed Instance—you get all the managed benefits of SQL Database and now at the instance level which offers support for SQL Agent, three-part names, DBMail, CDC and other instance-level capabilities.

To streamline this migration effort, we also introduced a preview for Azure Database Migration Service that will dramatically accelerate the migration of on-premises third-party and SQL Server databases into Azure SQL Database.

Eric Fleischman, Vice President & Chief Architect from DocuSign notes, “Our transaction volume doubles every year. We wanted the best of what we do in our datacenter…with the best of what Azure could bring to it. For us, we found that Azure SQL Database was the best way to do it. We deploy our SQL Server schema elements into a Managed Instance, and we point the application via connection string change directly over to the Managed Instance. We basically picked up our existing build infrastructure and we’re able to deploy to Azure within a few seconds. It allows us to scale the business very quickly with minimal effort.”

Learn more about our investments in Azure SQL Database in this deeper blog and sign up for an invitation to these previews today.

Turnkey global distribution to push intelligence wherever your users are

With the intersection of mobile apps, internet of things, cloud and AI, users and data can come from anywhere around the globe. To deliver transformative intelligent apps that support the global nature of modern applications, and the volume, velocity, variety of data, you need more than a relational database, and more than a simple NoSQL database. You need a flexible database that can ingest massive volumes of data and data types, and navigate the challenges of space and time to ensure millisecond performance to any user anywhere on earth. And you want this with simplicity and support for the languages and technologies you know.

I’m also excited to share that today, Microsoft announced Azure Cosmos DB, the industry’s first globally-distributed, multi-model database service. Azure Cosmos DB was built from the ground up with global distribution and horizontal scale at its core – it offers turn-key global distribution across any number of Azure regions by transparently scaling and distributing your data wherever your users are, worldwide. Azure Cosmos DB leverages the work of Turing award winner Dr. Leslie Lamport, PAXOS algorithm for distributed systems and TLA+ a high-level modeling language. Check out a new with Dr. Lamport on Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Cosmos DB started as “Project Florence” in 2010 to address developer the pain-points faced by large scale applications inside Microsoft. Observing that the challenges of building globally distributed apps are not a problem unique to Microsoft, in 2015 we made the first generation of this technology available to Azure developers in the form of Azure DocumentDB. Since that time, we’ve added new features and introduced significant new capabilities. Azure Cosmos DB is the result. It is the next big leap in globally distributed, at scale, cloud databases.

Now, with more innovation and value, Azure Cosmos DB delivers a schema-agnostic database service with turnkey global distribution, support for multiple models across popular NoSQL technologies, elastic scale of throughput and storage, five well-defined consistency models, and financially-backed SLAs across uptime, throughput, consistency, and millisecond latency.

“Domino’s Pizza chose Azure to rebuild their ordering system and a key component in this design is Azure Cosmos DB—delivering the capability to regionally distribute data, to scale easily, and support peak periods which are critical to the business. Their online solution is deployed across multiple regions around the world—even with the global scaling they can also rely on Azure Cosmos DB millisecond load latency and fail over to a completely different country if required.”

Learn more about Azure Cosmos DB in this deeper blog.

Choice of database platforms and tools for developers

We understand that SQL Server isn’t the only database technology developers want to build with. Therefore, I’m excited to share that today we also announced two new relational database services; Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL to join our database services offerings.

These new services are built on the proven database services platform, which has been powering Azure SQL Database, and offers high availability, data protection and recovery, and scale with minimal downtime—all built-in at no extra cost or configurations. Starting today, you can now develop on MySQL and PostgreSQL database services on Azure. Microsoft is managing the MySQL and PostgreSQL technology you know, love and expect but backed by an enterprise-grade, highly available and fault tolerant cloud services platform that allows you to focus on developing great apps versus management and maintenance.

“Each month, up to 2 million people turn to the GeekWire website for the latest news on tech innovation. Now, GeekWire is making news itself by migrating its popular WordPress site to the Microsoft Azure platform. Kevin Lisota, Web Developer at GeekWire notes, “The biggest benefit of Azure Database for MySQL will be to have Microsoft manage and back up that resource for us so that we can focus on other aspects of the site. Plus, we will be able to scale up temporarily as traffic surges and then bring it back down when it is not needed. That’s a big deal for us.”

Learn more about these new services and try them today.

Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

Azure Data Lake includes all the capabilities required to make it easy for developers, data scientists, and analysts to store data of any size, shape, and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. Additionally, Azure Data Lake includes a set of cognitive capabilities built-in, making it seamless to execute AI over petabytes of data. On our journey to make it easier for every developer to become an AI and data science developer, we are investing in bringing more great tooling for data into the tools you know and love.

Today, I’m excited to announce General Availability of Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) which gives developers a light but powerful code editor for big data analytics. The new Azure Data Lake Tools for VSCode supports U-SQL language authoring, scripting, and extensibility with C# to process different types of data and efficiently scale any size of data. The new tooling integrates with Azure Data Lake Analytics for U-SQL job submissions with job output to Azure Data Lake Analytics or Azure Blob Storage. In addition, U-SQL local run service has been added to allow developers to locally validate scripts and test data. Learn more and download these tools today.

Getting started

It has never been easier to get started with the latest advances in the intelligent data platform. We invite you to watch our Microsoft Build 2017 online event for streaming and recorded coverage of these innovations, including SQL Server 2017 on Windows, Linux and Docker; scalable data transformation and intelligence from Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics; the Azure SQL Database approach to proactive Threat Detection and intelligent database tuning; new Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. I look forward to a great week at Build and your participation in this exciting journey of infusing AI into every software application.
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Source: Serving AI with Data: A Summary of Build 2017 Data Innovations | SQL Server Blog

Rajeshwari_Patil · Sep 25, 2020

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