AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Questions and Answers

Reliability and safety: To build trust, it's critical that AI systems operate reliably, safely, and consistently under normal circumstances and in unexpected conditions. These systems should be able to operate as they were originally designed, respond safely to unanticipated conditions, and resist harmful manipulation.

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Reliability & Safety

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“To build trust, it's critical that AI systems operate reliably, safely, and consistently under normal circumstances and in unexpected conditions. These systems should be able to operate as they were originally designed, respond safely to unanticipated conditions, and resist harmful manipulation. It's also important to be able to verify that these systems are behaving as intended under actual operating conditions. How they behave and the variety of conditions they can handle reliably and safely largely reflects the range of situations and circumstances that developers anticipate during design and testing. We believe that rigorous testing is essential during system development and deployment to ensure AI systems can respond safely in unanticipated situations and edge cases, don't have unexpected performance failures, and don't evolve in ways that are inconsistent with original expectations”

Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of writing is positive, negative or neutral.

The None intent is filled with utterances that are outside of your domain.

Utterances are input from the user that your app needs to interpret.

Inclusiveness: At Microsoft, we firmly believe everyone should benefit from intelligent technology, meaning it must incorporate and address a broad range of human needs and experiences. For the 1 billion people with disabilities around the world, AI technologies can be a game-changer.

Azure Text to Speech is a Speech service feature that converts text to lifelike speech.

The Text Analytics API is a cloud-based service that provides advanced natural language processing over raw text, and includes four main functions: sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, named entity recognition, and language detection.

Box 1: Yes

You can detect which language the input text is written in and report a single language code for every document submitted on the request in a wide range of languages, variants, dialects, and some regional/cultural languages. The language code is paired with a score indicating the strength of the score.

Box 2: No

Box 3: Yes

Named Entity Recognition: Identify and categorize entities in your text as people, places, organizations, date/time, quantities, percentages, currencies, and more. Well-known entities are also recognized and linked to more information on the web.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/luis/what-is-lui s

Natural language processing (NLP) is used for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, language detection, key phrase extraction, and document categorization.

Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of writing is positive, negative or neutral.

Press release is a written communication. Speech wouldn't make sense. Plus, the Speech service doesn't translate languages, it "translates" audio into text, and vice versa.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/transla te-text-with-translation-service/2-get-started-azure

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The translator service provides multi-language support for text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionaries.

Speech-to-Text, also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), is a feature of Speech Services that provides transcription.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/overview

You can provide the Text Analytics service with unstructured text and it will return a list of entities in the text that it recognizes. You can provide the Text Analytics service with unstructured text and it will return a list of entities in the text that it recognizes. The service can also provide links to more information about that entity on the web. An entity is essentially an item of a particular type or a category; and in some cases, subtype, such as those as shown in the following table.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/analyze-text-with-text-analytics-service/2-get-started-azure

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Box 1: Entity recognition

the Named Entity Recognition module in Machine Learning Studio (classic), to identify the names of things, such as people, companies, or locations in a column of text.

Named entity recognition is an important area of research in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), because it can be used to answer many real-world questions, such as:

• Which companies were mentioned in a news article?
• Does a tweet contain the name of a person? Does the tweet also provide his current location?
• Were specified products mentioned in complaints or reviews?

Box 2: Sentiment Analysis

The Text Analytics API's Sentiment Analysis feature provides two ways for detecting positive and negative sentiment. If you send a Sentiment Analysis request, the API will return sentiment labels (such as "negative", "neutral" and "positive") and confidence scores at the sentence and document-level.

Box 1: Entity recognition

Classify a broad range of entities in text, such as people, places, organisations, date/time and percentages, using named entity recognition. Whereas:- Get a list of relevant phrases that best describe the subject of each record using key phrase extraction.

Box 2: Sentiment analysis

Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of writing is positive, negative or neutral.

Box 3: Translation

Using Microsoft’s Translator text API

This versatile API from Microsoft can be used for the following:

Translate text from one language to another.

Transliterate text from one script to another.

Detecting language of the input text.

Find alternate translations to specific text.

Determine the sentence length.

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Bots are a popular way to provide support through multiple communication channels. You can use the QnA

Maker service and Azure Bot Service to create a bot that answers user questions.

B: Azure's Computer Vision service provides developers with access to advanced algorithms that process images and return information based on the visual features you're interested in. For example, Computer Vision can determine whether an image contains adult content, find specific brands or objects, or find human faces.

C: Computer Vision includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities. You can use the new Read API to extract printed and handwritten text from images and documents.

Azure's Computer Vision API includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities that extract printed or handwritten text from images. You can extract text from images, such as photos of license plates or containers with serial numbers, as well as from documents - invoices, bills, financial reports, articles, and more.

Azure's Computer Vision service gives you access to advanced algorithms that process images and return information based on the visual features you're interested in. For example, Computer Vision can determine whether an image contains adult content, find specific brands or objects, or find human faces.

Optical character recognition (OCR) allows you to extract printed or handwritten text from images and documents.

Box 1: Facial recognition

Face detection that perceives faces and attributes in an image; person identification that matches an individual in your private repository of up to 1 million people; perceived emotion recognition that detects a range of facial expressions like happiness, contempt, neutrality, and fear; and recognition and grouping of similar faces in images.

Box 2: OCR

Box 3: Objection detection

Object detection is similar to tagging, but the API returns the bounding box coordinates (in pixels) for each object found. For example, if an image contains a dog, cat and person, the Detect operation will list those objects together with their coordinates in the image. You can use this functionality to process the relationships between the objects in an image. It also lets you determine whether there are multiple instances of the same tag in an image.

The Detect API applies tags based on the objects or living things identified in the image. There is currently no formal relationship between the tagging taxonomy and the object detection taxonomy. At a conceptual level, the Detect API only finds objects and living things, while the Tag API can also include contextual terms like "indoor", which can't be localized with bounding boxes.

Box 1: verification

Face verification: Check the likelihood that two faces belong to the same person and receive a confidence score.

Box 2: similarity

Box 3: Grouping

Box 4: identification

Face detection: Detect one or more human faces along with attributes such as: age, emotion, pose, smile, and facial hair, including 27 landmarks for each face in the image.

Azure Custom Vision is a cognitive service that lets you build, deploy, and improve your own image classifiers. An image classifier is an AI service that applies labels (which represent classes) to images, according to their visual characteristics. Unlike the Computer Vision service, Custom Vision allows you to specify the labels to apply.

Note: The Custom Vision service uses a machine learning algorithm to apply labels to images. You, the developer, must submit groups of images that feature and lack the characteristics in question. You label the images yourself at the time of submission. Then the algorithm trains to this data and calculates its own accuracy by testing itself on those same images. Once the algorithm is trained, you can test, retrain, and eventually use it to classify new images according to the needs of your app. You can also export the model itself for offline use.

Object detection is similar to tagging, but the API returns the bounding box coordinates (in pixels) for each object found. For example, if an image contains a dog, cat and person, the Detect operation will list those objects together with their coordinates in the image. You can use this functionality to process the relationships between the objects in an image. It also lets you determine whether there are multiple instances of the same tag in an image.

The Detect API applies tags based on the objects or living things identified in the image. There is currently no formal relationship between the tagging taxonomy and the object detection taxonomy. At a conceptual level, the Detect API only finds objects and living things, while the Tag API can also include contextual terms like "indoor", which can't be localized with bounding boxes.

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Box 1: Image classification

Image classification is a supervised learning problem: define a set of target classes (objects to identify in images), and train a model to recognize them using labeled example photos.

Box 2: Object detection

Object detection is a computer vision problem. While closely related to image classification, object detection performs image classification at a more granular scale. Object detection both locates and categorizes entities within images.

Box 3: Semantic Segmentation

Semantic segmentation achieves fine-grained inference by making dense predictions inferring labels for every pixel, so that each pixel is labeled with the class of its enclosing object ore region.

1- Regression

2- Clustering

3- Classification

In the most basic sense, regression refers to prediction of a numeric target.

Linear regression attempts to establish a linear relationship between one or more independent variables and a numeric outcome, or dependent variable.

You use this module to define a linear regression method, and then train a model using a labeled dataset. The trained model can then be used to make predictions.

Box 1: Yes

Custom Vision functionality can be divided into two features. Image classification applies one or more labels to an image. Object detection is similar, but it also returns the coordinates in the image where the applied label(s) can be found.

Box 2: Yes

The Custom Vision service uses a machine learning algorithm to analyze images. You, the developer, submit groups of images that feature and lack the characteristics in question. You label the images yourself at the time of submission. Then, the algorithm trains to this data and calculates its own accuracy by testing itself on those same images.

Box 3: No

Custom Vision service can be used only on graphic files.

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Regression is a machine learning task that is used to predict the value of the label from a set of related features.

Note: Enterprise workspaces are no longer available as of September 2020. The basic workspace now has all the functionality of the enterprise workspace.

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What does a good model look like?

An ROC curve that approaches the top left corner with 100% true positive rate and 0% false positive rate will be the best model. A random model would display as a flat line from the bottom left to the top right corner. Worse than random would dip below the y=x line.

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Box 1: Yes

Automated machine learning, also referred to as automated ML or AutoML, is the process of automating the time consuming, iterative tasks of machine learning model development. It allows data scientists, analysts, and developers to build ML models with high scale, efficiency, and productivity all while sustaining model quality.

Box 2: No

Box 3: Yes

During training, Azure Machine Learning creates a number of pipelines in parallel that try different algorithms and parameters for you. The service iterates through ML algorithms paired with feature selections, where each iteration produces a model with a training score. The higher the score, the better the model is considered to "fit" your data. It will stop once it hits the exit criteria defined in the experiment.

Box 4: No

Apply automated ML when you want Azure Machine Learning to train and tune a model for you using the target metric you specify.

The label is the column you want to predict.

A common way of evaluating a model is to divide the data into a training and test set by using Split Data, and then validate the model on the training data.

Use the Split Data module to divide a dataset into two distinct sets.

The studio currently supports training/validation data splits

First Name, Last Name, Age and Education Level are features. Income range is a label (what you want to predict). First Name and Last Name are irrelevant in that they have no bearing on income. Age and Education level are the features you should use.

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Box 1: Select Columns in Dataset

For Columns to be cleaned, choose the columns that contain the missing values you want to change. You can choose multiple columns, but you must use the same replacement method in all selected columns.

Example:

Box 2: Split data

Splitting data is a common task in machine learning. You will split your data into two separate datasets. One dataset will train the model and the other will test how well the model performed.

Box 3: Linear regression

Because you want to predict price, which is a number, you can use a regression algorithm. For this example, you use a linear regression model.

The label is the column you want to predict. The identified Features are the inputs you give the model to predict the Label.

Example:

The provided data set contains the following columns:

vendor_id: The ID of the taxi vendor is a feature.

rate_code: The rate type of the taxi trip is a feature.

passenger_count: The number of passengers on the trip is a feature.

trip_time_in_secs: The amount of time the trip took. You want to predict the fare of the trip before the trip is completed. At that moment, you don't know how long the trip would take. Thus, the trip time is not a feature and you'll exclude this column from the model.

trip_distance: The distance of the trip is a feature.

payment_type: The payment method (cash or credit card) is a feature.

fare_amount: The total taxi fare paid is the label.

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Achieving transparency helps the team to understand the data and algorithms used to train the model, what transformation logic was applied to the data, the final model generated, and its associated assets. This information offers insights about how the model was created, which allows it to be reproduced in a transparent way.

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