AI in Industry
This episode recaps some of the AI news from Microsoft's 2018 Build developers conference. There's so much to discuss on the AI side, it's hard to know where to begin. Luckily, Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of AI Business, and Carlos Pessoa, a software engineering manager for the company’s Cloud AI Platform, talked to Kyle about announcements related to AI in industry.
In the first half, Kyle's interview with Steve discusses how Microsoft currently approaches AI from a business perspective and how other businesses can integrate and leverage AI. Steve talks about how Microsoft's focus on building a new set of AI services and tools to make AI accessible to every organization out there, which involves infusing AI into Microsoft's core products.
In the second half, Kyle and Carlos discuss the cognitive services that are a part of Microsoft's AI Platform, particularly the Intelligent Kiosk, which is a collection of demos showcasing workflows and experiences built on top of the Microsoft Cognitive Services. Most of its demos are hands-free and autonomous, using the human faces in front of a web camera as the main form of input. Carlos also talks about how his team built a skin cancer prediction app with Azure Machine Learning, CoreML & Xamarin.
Links to resources discussed:
Xamarin Mobile App Development
Microsoft's Cognitive Services
Intelligent Kiosk Sample (Github)
Microsoft's blog post on building a prediction app to predict skin cancer
Steve Guggenheimer
Steve Guggenheimer is the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI Business, where he is responsible for helping build AI-based solutions and moving the broader AI conversation and platform forward. Over his 20+ years at Microsoft, he has held leadership roles in strategically important areas and has contributed on product teams for Microsoft’s Application Platform, Windows, IE, MSN, SQL Server, Visual Studio and more.
Carlos Pessoa
Carlos Pessoa is the Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, where he leads the design and development of showcase experiences to illustrate what is possible with Microsoft AI. Prior to that, he worked in various areas at Microsoft as a software engineer, including at Microsoft’s Visual Studio, Xbox, Surface and .NET framework. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil.
