Sam Nasr on Azure AI & ML - Episode 185

In this episode, Sam Nasr is back to discuss Azure AI and ML with the host. Sam is an IT Consultant specializing in .Net, SQL Server, and Azure and provides consulting services, training, and custom app development to bring more value to business applications. In their conversation, they touch on the differences and similarities between AI and machine learning and how Azure Cognitive Services offers a variety of services based on different functions such as language, speech, and vision. They also discuss how a good representation and appropriate training of data are essential to achieve the best results, and how this relates to testing and deployment.

Sam's inspiration to dive deeper into AI and ML is discussed from a video featuring Saquib Shaikh, a blind software engineer at Microsoft which made public, Sam describes the video as moving and began focusing on diving more into AI and ML from that point. The podcast conversation highlights different AI and ML products, the variety of services offered with Azure Cognitive Services, and testing methods in AI and ML applications. They also touch on what it looks like to deploy a new release candidate from environment to environment, with clean data being a key factor in ensuring the best results when training models.

If you are interested in Azure's potential for AI and ML applications, this episode provides an excellent overview of its capabilities and how to achieve the best results through a structured training process and mindset.

This episode can be accessed via Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KcVo5nXpyjYJWzpekScns.